Graph-based tools for microscopic cellular image segmentation

  • Authors:
  • Vinh-Thong Ta;Olivier Lézoray;Abderrahim Elmoataz;Sophie Schüpp

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, GREYC CNRS UMR 6072, ENSICAEN, 6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin, F-14050 Caen Cedex, France;Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, GREYC CNRS UMR 6072, ENSICAEN, 6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin, F-14050 Caen Cedex, France;Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, GREYC CNRS UMR 6072, ENSICAEN, 6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin, F-14050 Caen Cedex, France;Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, GREYC CNRS UMR 6072, ENSICAEN, 6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin, F-14050 Caen Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose a framework of graph-based tools for the segmentation of microscopic cellular images. This framework is based on an object oriented analysis of imaging problems in pathology. Our graph tools rely on a general formulation of discrete functional regularization on weighted graphs of arbitrary topology. It leads to a set of useful tools which can be combined together to address various image segmentation problems in pathology. To provide fast image segmentation algorithms, we also propose an image simplification based on graphs as a pre processing step. The abilities of this set of image processing discrete tools are illustrated through automatic and interactive segmentation schemes for color cytological and histological images segmentation problems.