Title :
Detection of cell nuclei in breast biopsies using receptive fields
Author :
Schnorrenberg, F. ; Pattichis, C.S. ; Kyriacou, K. ; Schizas, C.N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Abstract :
A biopsy analysis support system, called BASS, is introduced. The system uses an unsupervised object detection loop involving center-surround receptive fields, and a nonlinearity to mark the location of cell nuclei in an image. Preliminary results of applying BASS to breast cancer biopsies are presented
Keywords :
cellular biophysics; medical image processing; object detection; biopsy analysis support system; breast cancer biopsies; cell nuclei detection; cell nuclei location marking; center-surround receptive fields; clinical image analysis; medical diagnostic technique; nonlinearity; unsupervised object detection loop; Biology computing; Breast biopsy; Breast cancer; Computer science; Convolution; Genetics; Image color analysis; Nervous system; Object detection; Shape;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1994. Engineering Advances: New Opportunities for Biomedical Engineers. Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2050-6
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1994.411844
