Automatic Cell Segmentation Using a Shape-Classification Model in Immunohistochemically Stained Cytological Images

  • Authors:
  • Shishir Shah

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents a segmentation method for detecting cells in immunohistochemically stained cytological images. A two-phase approach to segmentation is used where an unsupervised clustering approach coupled with cluster merging based on a fitness function is used as the first phase to obtain a first approximation of the cell locations. A joint segmentation-classification approach incorporating ellipse as a shape model is used as the second phase to detect the final cell contour. The segmentation model estimates a multivariate density function of low-level image features from training samples and uses it as a measure of how likely each image pixel is to be a cell. This estimate is constrained by the zero level set, which is obtained as a solution to an implicit representation of an ellipse. Results of segmentation are presented and compared to ground truth measurements.