An adaptive resource-allocating network for automated detection, segmentation, and classification of breast cancer nuclei topic area: image processing and recognition

Robust Nucleus/Cell Detection and Segmentation in Digital Pathology and Microscopy Images: A Comprehensive Review

Digital pathology and microscopy image analysis is widely used for comprehensive studies of cell morphology or tissue structure. Manual assessment is labor intensive and prone to interobserver variations. Computer-aided methods, which can significantly improve the objectivity and reproducibility, have attracted a great deal of interest in recent literature. Among the pipeline of building a computer-aided diagnosis system, nucleus or cell detection and segmentation play a very important role to describe the molecular morphological information. In the past few decades, many efforts have been devoted to automated nucleus/cell detection and segmentation. In this review, we provide a comprehensive summary of the recent state-of-the-art nucleus/cell segmentation approaches on different types of microscopy images including bright-field, phase-contrast, differential interference contrast, fluorescence, and electron microscopies. In addition, we discuss the challenges for the current methods and the potential future work of nucleus/cell detection and segmentation.

Adaptive striping watershed segmentation method for processing microscopic images of overlapping irregular-shaped and multicentre particles

Oversegmentation is a major drawback of the morphological watershed algorithm. Here, we study and reveal that the oversegmentation is not only because of the irregular shapes of the particle images, which people are familiar with, but also because of some particles, such as ellipses, with more than one centre. A new parameter, the striping level, is introduced and the criterion for striping parameter is built to help find the right markers prior to segmentation. An adaptive striping watershed algorithm is established by applying a procedure, called the marker searching algorithm, to find the markers, which can effectively suppress the oversegmentation. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by analysing some typical particle images including the images of gold nanorod ensembles.

A new method based for diagnosis of breast cancer cells from microscopic images: DWEE--JHT

In these days, there are many various diseases, whose diagnosis is very hardly. Breast cancer is one of these type diseases. In this paper, accuracy diagnosis of normal, benign, and malign breast cancer cell were found by combining mean success rates Jensen Shannon, Hellinger, and Triangle measure which connected with each other. In this article, an diagnostic method based on feature extraction Discrete Wavelet Entropy Energy (DWEE) and Jensen Shannon, Hellinger, Triangle Measure (JHT) Classifier for diagnosis of breast cancer. This diagnosis method is called as DWEE--JHT this paper. With this diagnosis method have found optimal feature subset using discrete wavelet transform feature extraction. Then these convenient features are given to Jensen Shannon, Hellinger, Triangle Measure (JHT) classifier. Then, between classifiers which are Jensen Shannon, Hellinger, and triangle distance have been validated the measures via relationships. Afterwards, breast cancer cells are classified using Jensen Shannon, Hellinger, and Triangle distance. Mean success rate of 16 feature vector with Jensen Shannon classifier is found % 97.81. Mean success rate of 16 feature vector with Hellinger classifier is found % 97.75. Mean success rate of 16 feature vector with Triangle classifier is found % 97.87. By averaging of results obtained from these 3 classifiers are found as 97.81 % average of accuracy diagnosis.

A flexible and robust approach for segmenting cell nuclei from 2D microscopy images using supervised learning and template matching

We describe a new supervised learning-based template matching approach for segmenting cell nuclei from microscopy images. The method uses examples selected by a user for building a statistical model that captures the texture and shape variations of the nuclear structures from a given dataset to be segmented. Segmentation of subsequent, unlabeled, images is then performed by finding the model instance that best matches (in the normalized cross correlation sense) local neighborhood in the input image. We demonstrate the application of our method to segmenting nuclei from a variety of imaging modalities, and quantitatively compare our results to several other methods. Quantitative results using both simulated and real image data show that, while certain methods may work well for certain imaging modalities, our software is able to obtain high accuracy across several imaging modalities studied. Results also demonstrate that, relative to several existing methods, the template-based method we propose presents increased robustness in the sense of better handling variations in illumination, variations in texture from different imaging modalities, providing more smooth and accurate segmentation borders, as well as handling better cluttered nuclei.

Adaptive successive erosion-based cell image segmentation for p53 immunohistochemistry in bladder inverted papilloma

Cell nuclei segmentation is a critical issue in automatic cell analysis for cancer diagnosis and prognosis. Marker-controlled watershed segmentation algorithm is used the most commonly. In this paper, adaptive successive erosion-based (ASE) marker extraction method for watershed algorithm is presented, with the goal of extracting markers labelling each individual nucleus, including overlapping cell nuclei. Based on the new marker detection method, an integrated cell image segmentation algorithm is developed for p53 immunohistochemistry in bladder inverted papilloma. Experiments were performed on a number of images, and results demonstrate that the algorithm produces more accurate segmentation than other methods.

Learning lateral interactions for feature binding and sensory segmentation from prototypic basis interactions

We present a hybrid learning method bridging the fields of recurrent neural networks, unsupervised Hebbian learning, vector quantization, and supervised learning to implement a sophisticated image and feature segmentation architecture. This architecture is based on the competitive layer model (CLM), a dynamic feature binding model, which is applicable on a wide range of perceptual grouping and segmentation problems. A predefined target segmentation can be achieved as attractor states of this linear threshold recurrent network, if the lateral weights are chosen by Hebbian learning. The weight matrix is given by the correlation matrix of special pattern vectors with a structure dependent on the target labeling. Generalization is achieved by applying vector quantization on pair-wise feature relations, like proximity and similarity, defined by external knowledge. We show the successful application of the method to a number of artifical test examples and a medical image segmentation problem of fluorescence microscope cell images.

Quantitative image analysis in mammary gland biology

In this paper we present a summary of recent quantitative approaches used for the analysis of macro and microscopic images in mammary gland biology. The advantages and disadvantages of whole mount analysis, reconstruction of serial tissue sections and nucleus/cell segmentation of either conventional and confocal images are discussed, as are applications of quantitative image analysis, such as quantification of protein levels or vasculature measurements in normal tissue and cancer. Integration of quantitative imaging into the further study of the mammary gland holds the promise of better understanding its tissue complexity that evolves during development, differentiation and disease.