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A Combined Expectation Maximization and Marker Controlled Watershed Driven Distance Regularized Level Sets for Nuclear Segmentation in Histopathological Images

by P. M. Shivamurthy, T. N. Nagabhushan, Vijaya Basavaraj
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 180 - Number 34
Year of Publication: 2018
Authors: P. M. Shivamurthy, T. N. Nagabhushan, Vijaya Basavaraj
10.5120/ijca2018916884

P. M. Shivamurthy, T. N. Nagabhushan, Vijaya Basavaraj . A Combined Expectation Maximization and Marker Controlled Watershed Driven Distance Regularized Level Sets for Nuclear Segmentation in Histopathological Images. International Journal of Computer Applications. 180, 34 ( Apr 2018), 1-8. DOI=10.5120/ijca2018916884

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author = { P. M. Shivamurthy, T. N. Nagabhushan, Vijaya Basavaraj },
title = { A Combined Expectation Maximization and Marker Controlled Watershed Driven Distance Regularized Level Sets for Nuclear Segmentation in Histopathological Images },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { Apr 2018 },
volume = { 180 },
number = { 34 },
month = { Apr },
year = { 2018 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 1-8 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume180/number34/29263-2018916884/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2018916884 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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Abstract

Detection of significant biomarker has been a major issue in the pathological study of cancerous tissue. The microscopic observation of H&E stained histopathological slides involves the study of various tissue objects and their significant traits influencing the cancer grading. The change in shape and size of the nuclei objects (nuclear pleomorphism) contributes much significantly in grading the cancer. With the advent of various imaging studies over a digitized Histopathological image, Active contour based segmentation approaches are considered to be much potential scheme in detecting the nuclei within occlusions and extracting their irregular boundaries. In this research, a novel approach of driving the contours of distance regularized level sets using an improved watershed transformation, has been presented. An Expectation Maximization based morphologically precomputed shape prior is used to extract the foreground markers, which controls the watershed transformation. The result of watershed transformation is used compute the centroid of nuclei to serve the initialization of the contour and the proposed gradient to drive the same efficiently. The study performed over the Benign and Malignant tissue images from BreakHis dataset has shown the efficacy of the methodology in terms of object detection accuracy and overlap resolution. The segmentation accuracy is compared to that of Geodesic active contours, based on the ground truth generated by expert pathologist.

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Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Nuclear pleomorphism Centroid Detection Watershed gradient Contour Evolution

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