Image analysis system for automated detection of breast cancer nuclei
Date
1997Publisher
IEEE Comp SocSource
IEEE International Conference on Image ProcessingProceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Image Processing. Part 2 (of 3)
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3Pages
512-515Google Scholar check
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A study for breast cancer nuclei detection is presented in this paper. The proposed algorithm determines the centers of nuclei in biopsy images using block-based processing of the images followed by singular value decomposition of each block. The Normalized Singular Value Vector, which consists of the normalized singular values of the block in decreasing order, is fed as input to an appropriate neural network which classifies the block into nuclei and background ones. Examples are presented which illustrate the ability of the proposed technique to model the knowledge provided by experts in the nuclei detection task.