This paper presents two automated methods for the segmentation ofimmunohistochemical tissue images that overcome the limitations of themanual approach aswell as of the existing computerized techniques. The first independent method, based on unsupervised color clustering, recognizes automatically the target cancerous areas in the specimen and disregards the stroma; the second method, based on colors separation and morphological processing, exploits automated segmentation of the nuclear membranes of the cancerous cells. Extensive experimental results on real tissue images demonstrate the accuracy of our techniques compared to manual segmentations; additional experiments show that our techniques are more effective in immunohistochemical images than popular approaches based on supervised learning or active contours. The proposed procedure can be exploited for any applications that require tissues and cells exploration and to perform reliable and standardized measures of the activity of specific proteins involved in multi-factorial genetic pathologies.

Automated segmentation of tissue images for computerized IHC analysis / Di Cataldo, Santa; Ficarra, Elisa; Acquaviva, Andrea; Macii, Enrico. - In: COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE. - ISSN 0169-2607. - 100:1(2010), pp. 1-15. [10.1016/j.cmpb.2010.02.002]

Automated segmentation of tissue images for computerized IHC analysis

FICARRA, ELISA;
2010

Abstract

This paper presents two automated methods for the segmentation ofimmunohistochemical tissue images that overcome the limitations of themanual approach aswell as of the existing computerized techniques. The first independent method, based on unsupervised color clustering, recognizes automatically the target cancerous areas in the specimen and disregards the stroma; the second method, based on colors separation and morphological processing, exploits automated segmentation of the nuclear membranes of the cancerous cells. Extensive experimental results on real tissue images demonstrate the accuracy of our techniques compared to manual segmentations; additional experiments show that our techniques are more effective in immunohistochemical images than popular approaches based on supervised learning or active contours. The proposed procedure can be exploited for any applications that require tissues and cells exploration and to perform reliable and standardized measures of the activity of specific proteins involved in multi-factorial genetic pathologies.
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Automated segmentation of tissue images for computerized IHC analysis / Di Cataldo, Santa; Ficarra, Elisa; Acquaviva, Andrea; Macii, Enrico. - In: COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE. - ISSN 0169-2607. - 100:1(2010), pp. 1-15. [10.1016/j.cmpb.2010.02.002]
Di Cataldo, Santa; Ficarra, Elisa; Acquaviva, Andrea; Macii, Enrico
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