TY - GEN
T1 - Segmentation of cervical nuclei using SLIC and pairwise regional contrast
AU - Saha, Ratna
AU - Bajger, Mariusz
AU - Lee, Gobert
PY - 2018/10/26
Y1 - 2018/10/26
N2 - A framework to detect and segment nuclei from cervical cytology images is proposed in this study. Poor contrast, spurious edges, degree of overlap, and intensity inhomogeneity make the nuclei segmentation task more complex in overlapping cell images. The proposed technique segments cervical nuclei by merging over-segmented SLIC superpixel regions using a novel region merging criteria based on pairwise regional contrast and image gradient contour evaluations. The framework was evaluated using the first overlapping cervical cytology image segmentation challenge - ISBI 2014 dataset. The result shows that the proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms in nucleus detection and segmentation accuracies.
AB - A framework to detect and segment nuclei from cervical cytology images is proposed in this study. Poor contrast, spurious edges, degree of overlap, and intensity inhomogeneity make the nuclei segmentation task more complex in overlapping cell images. The proposed technique segments cervical nuclei by merging over-segmented SLIC superpixel regions using a novel region merging criteria based on pairwise regional contrast and image gradient contour evaluations. The framework was evaluated using the first overlapping cervical cytology image segmentation challenge - ISBI 2014 dataset. The result shows that the proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms in nucleus detection and segmentation accuracies.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85056655198&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8513021
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8513021
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 3422
EP - 3425
BT - 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
A2 - Patton, Jim
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
Y2 - 18 July 2018
ER -