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Cluster detection and field-of-view quality rating: Applied to automated Pap-smear analysis
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Division of Visual Information and Interaction. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Computerized Image Analysis and Human-Computer Interaction.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Division of Visual Information and Interaction. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Computerized Image Analysis and Human-Computer Interaction.
2013 (English)In: Proc. 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, SciTePress, 2013, p. 355-364Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Automated cervical cancer screening systems require high resolution analysis of a large number of epithelial cells, involving complex algorithms, mainly analysing the shape and texture of cell nuclei. This can be a very time consuming process. An initial selection of relevant fields-of-view in low resolution images could limit the number of fields to be further analysed at a high resolution. In particular, the detection of cell clusters is of interest for nuclei segmentation improvement, and for diagnostic purpose, malignant and endometrial cells being more prone to stick together in clusters than other cells. In this paper, we propose methods aiming at evaluating the quality of fields-of-view in bright-field microscope images of cervical cells. The approach consists in the construction of neighbourhood graphs using the nuclei as the set of vertices. Transformations are then applied on such graphs in order to highlight the main structures in the image. The methods result in the delineation of regions with varying cell density and the identification of cell clusters. Clustering methods are evaluated using a dataset of manually delineated clusters and compared to a related work.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SciTePress, 2013. p. 355-364
National Category
Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)
Research subject
Computerized Image Analysis
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-212509ISBN: 978-989-8565-41-9 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-212509DiVA, id: diva2:678139
Conference
2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM), February 15-18, 2013, Barcelona, Spain
Available from: 2013-12-11 Created: 2013-12-11 Last updated: 2018-01-11Bibliographically approved
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1. Image Analysis in Support of Computer-Assisted Cervical Cancer Screening
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Image Analysis in Support of Computer-Assisted Cervical Cancer Screening
2013 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Cervical cancer is a disease that annually claims the lives of over a quarter of a million women. A substantial number of these deaths could be prevented if population wide cancer screening, based on the Papanicolaou test, were globally available. The Papanicolaou test involves a visual review of cellular material obtained from the uterine cervix. While being relatively inexpensive from a material standpoint, the test requires highly trained cytology specialists to conduct the analysis. There is a great shortage of such specialists in developing countries, causing these to be grossly overrepresented in the mortality statistics. For the last 60 years, numerous attempts at constructing an automated system, able to perform the screening, have been made. Unfortunately, a cost-effective, automated system has yet to be produced.

In this thesis, a set of methods, aimed to be used in the development of an automated screening system, are presented. These have been produced as part of an international cooperative effort to create a low-cost cervical cancer screening system. The contributions are linked to a number of key problems associated with the screening: Deciding which areas of a specimen that warrant analysis, delineating cervical cell nuclei, rejecting artefacts to make sure that only cells of diagnostic value are included when drawing conclusions regarding the final diagnosis of the specimen. Also, to facilitate efficient method development, two methods for creating synthetic images that mimic images acquired from specimen are described.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2013. p. 95
Series
Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, ISSN 1651-6214 ; 1106
Keywords
Image analysis, cervical cancer, pap-smear, synthetic images, screening, image processing, cytometry
National Category
Medical Image Processing
Research subject
Computerized Image Processing
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-212518 (URN)978-91-554-8828-4 (ISBN)
Public defence
2014-02-07, Room 2446, Polacksbacken, Lägerhyddsvägen 2, Uppsala, 13:15 (English)
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Vinnova, 2008-01712Swedish Research Council, 2008-2738
Available from: 2014-01-16 Created: 2013-12-11 Last updated: 2014-07-21

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