Automated ensemble segmentation of epithelial proliferation, necrosis, and fibrosis using scatter tumor imaging
View/ Open
Identificadores
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10902/2525DOI: 10.1117/12.854559
ISSN: 1996-756X
ISSN: 0277-786X
Full record
Show full item recordAuthor
García Allende, Pilar Beatriz; Conde Portilla, Olga María


Date
2010-05-17Derechos
© 2010 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic electronic or print reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.
Publicado en
Proceedings of SPIE, 2010, vol. 7715, 77151B
Biophotonics: Photonic Solutions for Better Health Care II, Bruselas, 2010
Publisher
SPIE Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Enlace a la publicación
Palabras clave
Automatic classification
Tumor
Necrosis
Confocal reflectance imaging
Scatter
Feature extraction
K-nearest neighbors (kNN)
Artificial neural networks (ANN)
Abstract:
Conventional imaging systems used today in surgical settings rely on contrast enhancement based on color and intensity and they are not sensitive to morphology changes at the microscopic level. Elastic light scattering spectroscopy has been shown to distinguish ultra-structural changes in tissue. Therefore, it could provide this intrinsic contrast being enormously useful in guiding complex surgical interventions. Scatter parameters associated with epithelial proliferation, necrosis and fibrosis in pancreatic tumors were previously estimated in a quantitative manner. Subtle variations were encountered across the distinct diagnostic categories. This work proposes an automated methodology to correlate these variations with their corresponding tumor morphologies. A new approach based on the aggregation of the predictions of K-nearest neighbors (kNN) algorithm and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) has been developed. The major benefit obtained from the combination of the distinct classifiers is a significant increase in the number of pixel localizations whose corresponding tissue type is reliably assured. Pseudo-color diagnosis images are provided showing a strong correlation with sample segmentations performed by a veterinary pathologist.
Collections to which it belong
- D50 Congresos [421]
- D50 Proyectos de Investigación [291]