Polarimetric imaging for cervical pre-cancer screening aided by machine learning: ex vivo studies

D Robinson, K Hoong, WB Kleijn… - Journal of …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance Wide-field imaging Mueller polarimetry is an optical imaging technique that has
great potential to become a reliable, fast, non-contact in vivo imaging modality for the early …

Ex vivo Mueller polarimetric imaging of the uterine cervix: a first statistical evaluation

J Rehbinder, H Haddad, S Deby, B Teig… - … of biomedical optics, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Early detection through screening plays a major role in reducing the impact of cervical
cancer on patients. When detected before the invasive stage, precancerous lesions can be …

A polarization-imaging-based machine learning framework for quantitative pathological diagnosis of cervical precancerous lesions

Y Dong, J Wan, X Wang, JH Xue, J Zou… - … on Medical Imaging, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Polarization images encode high resolution microstructural information even at low
resolution. We propose a framework combining polarization imaging and traditional …

Polarimetric measurement utility for pre-cancer detection from uterine cervix specimens

M Kupinski, M Boffety, F Goudail… - Biomedical optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Prior work demonstrated significant contrast in visible wavelength Mueller matrix images for
healthy and pre-cancerous regions of excised cervical tissue. This work demonstrates post …

Mueller polarimetric imaging of biological tissues: classification in a decision-theoretic framework

C Heinrich, J Rehbinder, A Nazac, B Teig… - JOSA A, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Mueller polarimetry is increasingly recognized as a powerful modality in biomedical
imaging. Nevertheless, principled statistical analysis procedures are still lacking in this field …

In vivo imaging of uterine cervix with a Mueller polarimetric colposcope

J Vizet, J Rehbinder, S Deby, S Roussel, A Nazac… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Mueller polarimetric imaging enables the detection and quantification of modifications of the
collagen fibers in the uterine cervix due to the development of a precancerous lesion. This …

Polarimetric imaging for the diagnosis of cervical cancer

M Anastasiadou, AD Martino, D Clement… - … status solidi c, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We present a first evaluation of polarimetric imaging in the degree of polarization (DOP)
mode for cervical cancer detection. The preliminary results obtained with exvivo biopsies …

Polarization-Based Histopathology Classification of Ex Vivo Colon Samples Supported by Machine Learning

D Ivanov, V Dremin, T Genova, A Bykov… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In biophotonics, novel techniques and approaches are being constantly sought to assist
medical doctors and to increase both sensitivity and specificity of the existing diagnostic …

Auto-detection of cervical collagen and elastin in Mueller matrix polarimetry microscopic images using K-NN and semantic segmentation classification

C Roa, VN Du Le, M Mahendroo… - Biomedical Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We propose an approach for discriminating fibrillar collagen fibers from elastic fibers in the
mouse cervix in Mueller matrix microscopy using convolutional neural networks (CNN) and …

Design and implementation of a portable colposcope Mueller matrix polarimeter

M Gonzalez, KA Montejo, K Krupp… - Journal of …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: Mueller matrix polarimetry can provide useful information about the function
and structure of the extracellular matrix. A portable and low-cost system could facilitate the …