TY - JOUR
T1 - Color processing in pathology image analysis system for liver biopsy
AU - Murakami, Yuri
AU - Abe, Tokiya
AU - Yamashita, Yoshiko
AU - Yamaguchi, Masahiro
AU - Ishikawa, Masahiro
AU - Hashiguchi, Akinori
AU - Tomoharu, Kiyuna
AU - Saito, Akira
AU - Sakamoto, Michiie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Society for Imaging Science and Technology.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We have been developing a prototype system for the automatic detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) from whole slide images (WSIs) of liver biopsy based on image analysis techniques. In this paper, we present two color-related topics of this system: color correction and the calculation of color-related features of cytoplasm. A WSI-basis color correction method was implemented for the prototype system. We tested the color correction using more than 300 WISs, and it was confirmed that the color correction works well and stably. In addition, it was found that the success rate of nuclei detection significantly increaseed due to color correction. As for color-related features, we propose a method to calculate the representative color of cytoplasm and the clearness of cytoplasm. It was found that there was slight difference between the distributions of the representative colors of HCC and non-cancer tissues. In addition, there was slight correlation between the clearness of cytoplasm and nuclei density, which implies a promising role of the clearness index in a nuclei-based HCC detection.
AB - We have been developing a prototype system for the automatic detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) from whole slide images (WSIs) of liver biopsy based on image analysis techniques. In this paper, we present two color-related topics of this system: color correction and the calculation of color-related features of cytoplasm. A WSI-basis color correction method was implemented for the prototype system. We tested the color correction using more than 300 WISs, and it was confirmed that the color correction works well and stably. In addition, it was found that the success rate of nuclei detection significantly increaseed due to color correction. As for color-related features, we propose a method to calculate the representative color of cytoplasm and the clearness of cytoplasm. It was found that there was slight difference between the distributions of the representative colors of HCC and non-cancer tissues. In addition, there was slight correlation between the clearness of cytoplasm and nuclei density, which implies a promising role of the clearness index in a nuclei-based HCC detection.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84932622120
SN - 2166-9635
VL - 2014-January
SP - 184
EP - 188
JO - Final Program and Proceedings - IS and T/SID Color Imaging Conference
JF - Final Program and Proceedings - IS and T/SID Color Imaging Conference
IS - January
T2 - 22nd Color and Imaging Conference: Color Science and Engineering Systems, Technologies, and Applications, CIC 2014, Collocated with the 2nd Congress of the International Academy of Digital Pathology, IADP 2014
Y2 - 3 November 2014 through 7 November 2014
ER -