Segmentation of prostate cancer tissue microarray images

Harvey E. Cline; Ali Can; Dirk Padfield

doi:10.1117/12.643180

21 February 2006 Segmentation of prostate cancer tissue microarray images

Harvey E. Cline, Ali Can, Dirk Padfield

Proceedings Volume 6088, Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues IV; 60880R (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.643180
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Prostate cancer is diagnosed by histopathology interpretation of hematoxylin and eosin (H and E)-stained tissue sections. Gland and nuclei distributions vary with the disease grade. The morphological features vary with the advance of cancer where the epithelial regions grow into the stroma. An efficient pathology slide image analysis method involved using a tissue microarray with known disease stages. Digital 24-bit RGB images were acquired for each tissue element on the slide with both 10X and 40X objectives. Initial segmentation at low magnification was accomplished using prior spectral characteristics from a training tissue set composed of four tissue clusters; namely, glands, epithelia, stroma and nuclei. The segmentation method was automated by using the training RGB values as an initial guess and iterating the averaging process 10 times to find the four cluster centers. Labels were assigned to the nearest cluster center in red-blue spectral feature space. An automatic threshold algorithm separated the glands from the tissue. A visual pseudo color representation of 60 segmented tissue microarray image was generated where white, pink, red, blue colors represent glands, epithelia, stroma and nuclei, respectively. The higher magnification images provided refined nuclei morphology. The nuclei were detected with a RGB color space principle component analysis that resulted in a grey scale image. The shape metrics such as compactness, elongation, minimum and maximum diameters were calculated based on the eigenvalues of the best-fitting ellipses to the nuclei.

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Harvey E. Cline, Ali Can, and Dirk Padfield "Segmentation of prostate cancer tissue microarray images", Proc. SPIE 6088, Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues IV, 60880R (21 February 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.643180

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Tissues

Image segmentation

RGB color model

Prostate cancer

Cancer

Image processing algorithms and systems

Pathology

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