Automated identification of diploid reference cells in cervical smears using image analysis
| Autor: | Peter C.M. de Wilde, Martin M. M. Pahlplatz, Albertus G. Siebers, Antonius G.J.M. Hanselaar, Jeroen van der Laak, Vincent M. J. I. Cuijpers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Biophysics
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Papanicolaou stain Cervix Uteri Biology Bioinformatics Chromosomes Pathology and Forensic Medicine Polyploidy Endocrinology Histogram Image Processing Computer-Assisted medicine Humans Neoplasms Squamous Cell Feulgen stain Tumor pathology Cervix Cell Nucleus Observer Variation Vaginal Smears business.industry Reproducibility of Results Epithelial Cells Pattern recognition Cell Biology Hematology Tumor pathologie Reference Standards Decision Support Systems Clinical Diploidy Identification (information) medicine.anatomical_structure Feature (computer vision) Female Artificial intelligence Ploidy business Cytometry Algorithms Papanicolaou Test |
| Zdroj: | Cytometry, 47, 4, pp. 256-64 Cytometry, 47, 256-64 |
| ISSN: | 1097-0320 0196-4763 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/cyto.10078 |
| Popis: | Contains fulltext : 144413.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) BACKGROUND: Acquisition of DNA ploidy histograms by image analysis may yield important information regarding the behavior of premalignant cervical lesions. Accurate selection of nuclei for DNA measurement is an important prerequisite for obtaining reliable data. Traditionally, manual selection of nuclei of diagnostic and reference cells is performed by an experienced cytotechnologist. In the present study, a method for the fully automated identification of nuclei of diploid epithelial reference cells in Feulgen- restained Papanicolaou (PAP) smears is described. METHODS: The automated procedure consists of a decision tree implemented on the measurement device, containing nodes with feature threshold values and multivariate discriminant functions. Nodes were constructed to recognize debris and inflammatory cells, as well as diploid and nondiploid epithelial cells of the uterine cervix. Evaluation of the classifier was performed by comparing resulting diploid integrated optical densities with those from manually selected reference cells. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: On average, automatically acquired values deviated 2.4% from manually acquired values, indicating that the method described in this paper may be useful in cytometric practice. |
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