DocumentCode :
3263089
Title :
Automated Cell Nuclei Segmentation and Classification of Squamous Cell Carcinoma from Microscopic Images of Esophagus Tissue
Author :
Hiremath, P.S. ; Iranna, Y. Humnabad
Author_Institution :
Gulbarga Univ., Gulbarga
fYear :
2006
fDate :
20-23 Dec. 2006
Firstpage :
211
Lastpage :
216
Abstract :
The task of segmenting cell nuclei in microscopic images is a classical image analysis problem. The accurate nuclei segmentation may contribute to development of successful system which automates the analysis of microscope images for pathology detection. The major features of malignancy are related with the nuclei of the cells. It is therefore essential to operate a segmentation of the image, to isolate the nuclei from the rest of the image that is from the cytoplasm, and from some other undesirable elements coming from the image preparation. In this paper, we have proposed an automated cell nuclei segmentation and classification of Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) from microscopic images of esophagus tissue using moment based textural features. The morphological operations are used to remove the squaring effect on the boundary of nuclei. The proposed method is applied on color microscopic images in RGB color space. The experimental results show that the proposed method can efficiently segment cell nuclei and classify squamous cell carcinoma from the microscopic images. Also the results obtained are in good agreement with the manual segmentation done by the medical expert.
Keywords :
biological tissues; cellular biophysics; feature extraction; image classification; image colour analysis; image segmentation; image texture; medical image processing; microscopy; RGB color space; automated cell nuclei classification; automated cell nuclei segmentation; esophagus tissue; image preparation; microscopic images; moment based textural features; morphological operations; nuclei boundary; pathology detection; squamous cell carcinoma; Biomedical imaging; Biopsy; Cancer; Esophagus; Image analysis; Image segmentation; Medical diagnostic imaging; Microscopy; Pathology; Tumors;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Computing and Communications, 2006. ADCOM 2006. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Surathkal
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0716-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0716-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ADCOM.2006.4289885
Filename :
4289885
Link To Document :
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