Novel Digital Pathology Method for Computer-Aided Analysis of Histopathological Images Obtained from Dystrophic Muscle Biopsies

Author(s):  
Wlodzimierz Klonowski ◽  
Bozenna Kuraszkiewicz ◽  
Anna M. Kaminska ◽  
Anna Kostera-Pruszczyk
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wlodzimierz Klonowski ◽  
Bozenna Kuraszkiewicz ◽  
Anna M. Kaminska ◽  
Anna Kostera-Pruszczyk

AbstractDespite the introduction of a full range of genetic diagnostic tests and sophisticated techniques in modern pathology, interpretation of histopathological images obtained from muscle biopsies remains important in the daily practice of neuropathology since it can give indications of the severity and the rate of progression of neuromuscular disease. In this paper, we propose a simple and time saving method for quantitative assessment of severity of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) based on computer-aided analysis of histopathological images obtained from biopsies of dystrophic muscles. Using this method, colour filtration pixel-by-pixel of the whole virtual slides (CFPP method) is adopted to semi-quantitative evaluation of morphological structure of the muscular tissue. Results demonstrate usefulness of the proposed method in neuropathological assessement of DMD severity.


Author(s):  
R. Meena Prakash ◽  
Shantha Selva Kumari R.

Digital pathology is one of the significant methods in the medicine field to diagnose and treat cancer. The cell morphology and architecture distribution of biopsies are analyzed to diagnose the spread and severity of the disease. Manual analyses are time-consuming and subjected to intra- and inter-observer variability. Digital pathology and computer-aided analysis aids in enormous applications including nuclei detection, segmentation, and classification. The major challenges in nuclei segmentation are high variability in images due to differences in preparation of slides, heterogeneous structure, overlapping clusters, artifacts, and noise. The structure of the proposed chapter is as follows. First, an introduction about digital pathology and significance of digital pathology techniques in cancer diagnosis based on literature survey is given. Then, the method of classification of histopathological images using deep learning for different datasets is proposed with experimental results.


2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 748-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Jin Lee ◽  
Saurabh Garg ◽  
Heow Pueh Lee

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