KEYWORDS: Image segmentation, Image classification, Principal component analysis, Nickel, Microscopy, Breast cancer, Computer aided diagnosis and therapy, Classification systems, Tissues, RGB color model
Immunohistochemical (IHC) staining is commonly used for detecting cells in microscopy. It is used for analyzing many types of diseases, e.g. breast cancer. Dispersion problem often exist at cell staining which will affect the accuracy of automatic counting. In this paper, we introduce a new method to overcome this problem. Otsu’s thresholding method is first applied to exclude the background, so that only cells with dispersed staining are left at foreground, and then refinement will be applied by local adaptive thresholding method according to the irregularity index of the segmented shape at foreground. The segmentation results are also compared to the refinement results using Otsu’s thresholding method. Cell classification based on the shape and color indices obtained from the segmentation result is applied to determine the cell condition into normal, abnormal and suspected abnormal cases.
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