Lymphocyte Segmentation Using the Transferable Belief Model


Panagiotakis C., Ramasso E., Tziritas G.

20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Conference, İstanbul, Türkiye, 23 - 26 Nisan 2010, cilt.6388, ss.253-254 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 6388
  • Basıldığı Şehir: İstanbul
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.253-254
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

In the context of several pathologies, the presence of lymphocytes has been correlated with disease outcome. The ability to automatically detect lymphocyte nuclei on histopathology imagery could potentially result in the development of an image based prognostic tool. In this paper we present a method based on the estimation of a mixture of Gaussians for determining the probability distribution of the principal image component. Then, a post-processing stage eliminates regions, whose shape is not similar to the nuclei searched. Finally, a Transferable Belief Model is used to detect the lymphocyte nuclei, and a shape based algorithm possibly splits them under an equal area and an eccentricity constraint principle.