Title :
Automatic Extraction of Positive Cells in Tumor Immunohistochemical Pathology Image Based on YCbCr
Author :
Liu, Binghan ; Wang, Weizhi ; Fang, Xiuduan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput., Fuzhou Univ.
Abstract :
A method is presented to automatically extract and analyze positive cells in tumor immunohistochemical pathology images based on the YCbCr color space. First, according to the distribution rules of positive cells in the YCbCr space, it uses the components of Y, Cb, and Cr as threshold conditions and leverages the maximal entropy principle to build a model to segment and extract positive cells. Then, it extracts the characteristic parameters for positive cell regions. Finally, it quantitatively analyzes the key parameters for positive cells, such as density and intensity. The experimental results showed that the method can be further extended to immunohistochemical standardization
Keywords :
cellular biophysics; feature extraction; image colour analysis; image segmentation; maximum entropy methods; medical image processing; tumours; YCbCr color space; automatic positive cell extraction; maximal entropy principle; positive cell regions; positive cell segmentation; tumor immunohistochemical pathology image; Biomedical imaging; Biomembranes; Chromium; Image analysis; Image color analysis; Immune system; Medical diagnostic imaging; Neoplasms; Pathology; Space technology; YCbCr color space; automatic extraction; pathology images; positive cells;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control and Automation, 2006. WCICA 2006. The Sixth World Congress on
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0332-4
DOI :
10.1109/WCICA.2006.1713888