Accurate segmentation of cervical cytoplasm and nuclei based on multiscale convolutional network and graph partitioning

Y Song, L Zhang, S Chen, D Ni, B Lei… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a multiscale convolutional network (MSCN) and graph-partitioning-based
method is proposed for accurate segmentation of cervical cytoplasm and nuclei. Specifically …

Segmentation of cell clusters in Pap smear images using intensity variation between superpixels

ME Plissiti, M Vrigkas, C Nikou - 2015 International Conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The automated interpretation of Pap smear images is a challenging issue with several
aspects. The accurate segmentation of the structuring elements of each cell is a crucial …

Inflammatory cell extraction and nuclei detection in Pap smear images

D Riana, ME Plissiti, C Nikou… - International Journal of …, 2015 - igi-global.com
The automated diagnosis of cervical cancer in Pap smear images is a difficult though
extremely important procedure. In order to obtain reliable diagnostic information, the nuclei …

Extraction and classification texture of inflammatory cells and nuclei in normal pap smear images

D Riana, DH Widyantoro… - 2015 4th international …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The presence of inflammatory cells complicates the process of identifying the nuclei in the
early detection of cervical cancer. Inflammatory cells need to be eliminated to assist …

Morphological filtering and hierarchical deformation for partially overlapping cell segmentation

A Tareef, Y Song, MZ Lee, DD Feng… - … Conference on Digital …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate cell segmentation is an important and long-standing challenge in biomedical
image analysis due to large variations in shape and boundary ambiguity. In this paper, we …

Automatic pap smear nuclei detection using mean-shift and region growing

S Oprisescu, T Rădulescu, A Sultana… - … on Signals, Circuits …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Babes-Papanicolaou test (also known as Pap smear) is a method of cervical cancer
screening used to detect abnormal cells which are or can become cancerous. Since the …

Feature quantification and abnormal detection on cervical squamous epithelial cells

M Zhao, L Chen, L Bian, J Zhang… - … methods in medicine, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Feature analysis and classification detection of abnormal cells from images for pathological
analysis are an important issue for the realization of computer assisted disease diagnosis …

Learning shape-driven segmentation based on neural network and sparse reconstruction toward automated cell analysis of cervical smears

A Tareef, Y Song, W Cai, H Huang, Y Wang… - … , ICONIP 2015, Istanbul …, 2015 - Springer
The development of an automatic and accurate segmentation approach for both nuclei and
cytoplasm remains an open problem due to the complexities of cell structures resulting from …

Radial-based cell formation algorithm for separation of overlapping cells in medical microscopic images

SNAM Kanafiah, Y Jusman, NAM Isa… - Procedia Computer …, 2015 - Elsevier
Overlapping cells in a medical image can affect the extraction process of cells'
characteristics as they are visually indistinguishable from each other. This paper proposes a …

Analysis of pap smear images with iso-and edge-contours

C Rasche, S Oprisescu, A Sultana… - … and Processing (ICCP …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel method for the detection and segmentation of nuclei and cells in Pap smear images
is introduced. The method is based on a geometric analysis of iso-and edge-contours. For …