Browsing by Subject "Tissue images"

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Altçizge modellemesi kullanarak kolon bez tespiti
(IEEE, 2011-04) Özgül, Etkin Barış; Sökmensüer, C.; Gündüz-Demir, Çiğdem
Kolon adenokarsinomu, kolon bez yapılarında değişimlere yol açar. Patologlar bezlerdeki bu değişimleri değerlendirerek kolon adenokarsinom tanı ve derecelendirmesi yaparlar. Ancak değişimlerin değerlendirme süreci kaydadeğer öznellik taşıyabilir. Bezlerin matematiksel özniteliklerle karakterize edilmesiyle bu öznelliği azaltabilmek olasıdır. Bunun içinse ilk aşama, bezlerin yerlerinin otomatik olarak tespit edilmesidir. Literatürdeki bez tespit etme yöntemleri çoğunlukla piksel tabanlıdır. Ancak doku görüntüleri, doğaları gereği ve biyopsi hazırlama ve görüntü alma işlemlerindeki değişkenlik nedeni ile piksel bazında değişkenlik gösterebilir. Öte yandan, bu değişkenliğe rağmen, bezleri oluşturan doku bileşenlerinin uzaysal dağılımı benzer özellik gösterir. Bu dağılımı gözönüne alarak tasarlanan yöntemler, bölütleme başarısını artırma potansiyeline sahiptir. Bu çalışmada önerdiğimiz yöntem, ilk olarak, doku bileşenlerinin dağılımını, bu bileşenler üzerinde oluşturduğu bir çizge ile modeller. Daha sonra, oluşturduğu bu çizgeyi altçizgelere ayırır ve bu altçizgelerin öznitelikleri yardımıyla bezleri tespit eder. Kolon doku görüntüleri üzerinde yaptığımız çalışmalar, önerilen bu yöntemin bezlerin yüksek doğrulukta tespit edilmesinde umut verici sonuçlar verdiğini göstermiştir. The colon adenocarcinoma causes changes in glandular structures of colon tissues. Pathologists assess these changes to diagnose and grade the colon adenocarcinoma. However, this assessment may consist of a considerable amount of subjectivity. It is possible to reduce this subjectivity by characterizing the glands with mathematical features. For that, the first step is to detect gland locations. In literature, most of the gland detection methods are pixel-based. However, tissue images may show pixel-level variances due to their nature and differences in biopsy preparation and image acquisition procedures. On the other hand, in spite of these variances, the distribution of tissue components forming glands show similar properties. The methods that consider this distribution has the potential of improving the performance. The method proposed in this study first models the distribution of the components by constructing a graph on them. Then, it breaks the constructed graph down into subgraphs and detects the glands using the features of these subgraphs. The experiments conducted on colon tissue images show that the proposed method leads to promising results for detecting the glands. © 2011 IEEE.
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Kanser tanısı için kolon bezlerinin matematiksel analizi
(IEEE, 2009-04) Çığır, Celal; Sökmensüer, C.; Gündüz-Demir, Çiğdem
Neoplastic diseases including cancer cause organizational changes in tissues. Histopathological examination, which is routinely used for the diagnosis and grading of these diseases, relies on pathologists to identify such tissue changes under a microscope. However, as this examination mainly relies on the visual interpretation of pathologists, it may lead to a considerable amount of subjectivity. To reduce the subjectivity level, it is proposed to use computational methods that provide objective measures. These methods quantify the tissue changes associated with disease by defining features on tissue images. In this paper, colon glands are mathematically analyzed making use of different feature extraction approaches. In this analysis, morphological, intensity-based, and textural features are investigated and glands are classified using these features. Working on the images of 108 colon tissues of 36 patients, our experiments demonstrate that this classification leads to promising results for differentiating normal glands from the cancerous ones. ©2009 IEEE.
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Tissue object patterns for segmentation in histopathological images
(ACM, 2011) Gündüz-Demir, Çiğdem
In the current practice of medicine, histopathological examination is the gold standard for routine clinical diagnosis and grading of cancer. However, as this examination involves the visual analysis of biopsies, it is subject to a considerable amount of observer variability. In order to decrease the variability, it has been proposed to develop systems that mathematically model the histopathological tissue images and automate the analysis. Segmentation constitutes the first step for most of these automated systems. Nevertheless, the segmentation in histopathological images remains a challenging task since these images typically show variances due to their complex nature and may include a large amount of noise and artifacts due to the tissue preparation procedures. In our research group, we recently developed different segmentation algorithms that rely on representing a tissue image with a set of tissue objects and using the structural pattern of these objects in segmentation. In this paper, we review these segmentation algorithms, discussing their clinical demonstrations on colon tissues. © 2011 ACM.
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Unsupervised tissue image segmentation through object-oriented texture
(IEEE, 2010) Tosun, Akif Burak; Sokmensuer, C.; Gündüz-Demir, Çiğdem
This paper presents a new algorithm for the unsupervised segmentation of tissue images. It relies on using the spatial information of cytological tissue components. As opposed to the previous study, it does not only use this information in defining its homogeneity measures, but it also uses it in its region growing process. This algorithm has been implemented and tested. Its visual and quantitative results are compared with the previous study. The results show that the proposed segmentation algorithm is more robust in giving better accuracies with less number of segmented regions. © 2010 IEEE.