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9. Automated Analysis of Tissue Micro-Array Images on the Example of Renal Cell Carcinoma

verfasst von : Peter J. Schüffler, Thomas J. Fuchs, Cheng Soon Ong, Volker Roth, Joachim M. Buhmann

Erschienen in: Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition

Verlag: Springer London

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Abstract

Automated tissue micro-array analysis forms a challenging problem in computational pathology. The detection of cell nuclei, the classification into malignant and benign as well as the evaluation of their protein expression pattern by immunohistochemical staining are crucial routine steps for human cancer research and oncology. Computational assistance in this field can extremely accelerate the high throughput of the upcoming patient data as well as facilitate the reproducibility and objectivity of qualitative and quantitative measures. In this chapter, we describe an automated pipeline for staining estimation of tissue micro-array images, which comprises nucleus detection, nucleus segmentation, nucleus classification and staining estimation among cancerous nuclei. This pipeline is a practical example for the importance of non-metric effects in this kind of image analysis, e.g., the use of shape information and non-Euclidean kernels improve the nucleus classification performance significantly. The pipeline is explained and validated on a renal clear cell carcinoma dataset with MIB-1 stained tissue micro-array images and survival data of 133 patients. Further, the pipeline is implemented for medical use and research purpose in the free program TMARKER.

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Metadaten
Titel
Automated Analysis of Tissue Micro-Array Images on the Example of Renal Cell Carcinoma
verfasst von
Peter J. Schüffler
Thomas J. Fuchs
Cheng Soon Ong
Volker Roth
Joachim M. Buhmann
Copyright-Jahr
2013
Verlag
Springer London
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5628-4_9