Optoelectronic image processing for cervical cancer screening

Ramkumar Narayanswamy; John P. Sharpe; Kristina M. Johnson

doi:10.1117/12.176584

26 May 1994 Optoelectronic image processing for cervical cancer screening

Ramkumar Narayanswamy, John P. Sharpe, Kristina M. Johnson

Proceedings Volume 2132, Clinical Applications of Modern Imaging Technology II; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.176584
Event: OE/LASE '94, 1994, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

Automation of the Pap-smear cervical screening method is highly desirable as it relieves tedium for the human operators, reduces cost and should increase accuracy and provide repeatability. We present here the design for a high-throughput optoelectronic system which forms the first stage of a two stage system to automate pap-smear screening. We use a mathematical morphological technique called the hit-or-miss transform to identify the suspicious areas on a pap-smear slide. This algorithm is implemented using a VanderLugt architecture and a time-sequential ANDing smart pixel array.

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Ramkumar Narayanswamy, John P. Sharpe, and Kristina M. Johnson "Optoelectronic image processing for cervical cancer screening", Proc. SPIE 2132, Clinical Applications of Modern Imaging Technology II, (26 May 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.176584

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