Studying cytology of the uterine cervix on Win.´98/NT platform using color image processing and mathematical morphology of shapes: a cancerous cell detection and scoring system

Author

Suri, Jasjit S. ; Kumar, S. ; Chou, Yu-Yu

Author_Institution

Image Guided Surgery Div., Picker Int., Cleveland, OH, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

Cervical cytopathologists are mainly interested in automatically detecting abnormal cells (dysplasia), CIS (carcinoma in situ) and SCC (squamous cell carcinoma) and also their scoring. This paper presents an interactive algorithm based on color image processing, a combination of morphological algorithms based on shape analysis and finally the connected component analysis for scoring. This system runs on Windows ´98/NT PC-400 MHz (Pentium-II) platform, using Visual C++ (6.0) environment in three different architectures: single document interface, multiple document interface and dialog based applications. The system takes around 1.5 seconds per image of 512×484 square pixels using a high speed threading architecture. The system´s accuracy is 95%

Keywords

cancer; cellular biophysics; gynaecology; image colour analysis; mathematical morphology; medical image processing; 1.5 s; 400 MHz; Pentium-II; Visual C++; Win.´98/NT platform; abnormal cells; cancerous cell detection/scoring system; carcinoma in situ; cervical cytopathologists; color image processing; dialog based applications; dysplasia; high speed threading architecture; interactive algorithm; medical diagnostic imaging; multiple document interface; single document interface; squamous cell carcinoma; uterine cervix cytology; Algorithm design and analysis; Cancer detection; Colored noise; Image analysis; Image color analysis; Morphology; Oncological surgery; Pixel; Shape; Software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804297

Filename

804297