Otro
Unsupervised segmentation method for cuboidal cell nuclei in histological prostate images based on minimum cross entropy
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Expert Systems with Applications, v. 40, n. 18, p. 7331-7340, 2013.
0957-4174
10.1016/j.eswa.2013.06.079
WOS:000324663000018
2-s2.0-84881181456
Autor
De Oliveira, Domingos Lucas Latorre
Do Nascimento, Marcelo Zanchetta
Neves, Leandro Alves
De Godoy, Moacir Fernandes
De Arruda, Pedro Francisco Ferraz
De Santi Neto, Dalisio
Resumen
This paper presents a novel segmentation method for cuboidal cell nuclei in images of prostate tissue stained with hematoxylin and eosin. The proposed method allows segmenting normal, hyperplastic and cancerous prostate images in three steps: pre-processing, segmentation of cuboidal cell nuclei and post-processing. The pre-processing step consists of applying contrast stretching to the red (R) channel to highlight the contrast of cuboidal cell nuclei. The aim of the second step is to apply global thresholding based on minimum cross entropy to generate a binary image with candidate regions for cuboidal cell nuclei. In the post-processing step, false positives are removed using the connected component method. The proposed segmentation method was applied to an image bank with 105 samples and measures of sensitivity, specificity and accuracy were compared with those provided by other segmentation approaches available in the specialized literature. The results are promising and demonstrate that the proposed method allows the segmentation of cuboidal cell nuclei with a mean accuracy of 97%. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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