@inproceedings{e854a0a7d3e64dd5b43aa411a4c47d09,
title = "Automatic segmentation and classification of tendon nuclei from IHC stained images",
abstract = "Immunohistochemical (IHC) staining is commonly used for detecting cells in microscopy. It is used for analyzing many types of diseases, e.g. breast cancer. Dispersion problem often exist at cell staining which will affect the accuracy of automatic counting. In this paper, we introduce a new method to overcome this problem. Otsu's thresholding method is first applied to exclude the background, so that only cells with dispersed staining are left at foreground, and then refinement will be applied by local adaptive thresholding method according to the irregularity index of the segmented shape at foreground. The segmentation results are also compared to the refinement results using Otsu's thresholding method. Cell classification based on the shape and color indices obtained from the segmentation result is applied to determine the cell condition into normal, abnormal and suspected abnormal cases.",
author = "Kuok, {Chan Pang} and Wu, {Po Ting} and Jou, {I. Ming} and Su, {Fong Chin} and Sun, {Yung Nien}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 SPIE.; 7th International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing, ICGIP 2015 ; Conference date: 23-10-2015 Through 25-10-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1117/12.2228579",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Xudong Jiang and Xudong Jiang and Yulin Wang and Xudong Jiang and Yulin Wang and Xudong Jiang and Yulin Wang and Yulin Wang",
booktitle = "Seventh International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing, ICGIP 2015",
address = "United States",
}