Evaluating Cell Nuclei Segmentation for Use on Whole-Slide Images in Lung Cytology
Pattern Recognition(2014)
Abstract
This paper presents results from an evaluation of three previously presented methods for segmentation of cell nuclei in lung cytology samples scanned by whole-slide scanners. Whole-slide images from seven cases of end bronchial ultrasound-guided Tran bronchial needle aspiration samples were used for extracting a number of regions of interest, in which approximately 2700 cell nuclei were manually segmented to form the ground truth. The segmented cells included benign bronchial epithelium, lymphocytes, granulocytes, histiocytes and malignant epithelial cells. The best results were obtained with a method based upon adaptive thresholding and an added step of clustering for distinguishing between cytoplasm and cell nuclei. This method achieved a mean DICE-score of 0.81 and a sensitivity and specificity of 0.88 and 0.81 respectively. In addition, this method was by far the fastest method, with a mean processing time of 7.8 s per image (2 048 × 2 048 pixels per image). By further improvements, such as lowering the false positive rate and using parallel computing hardware, this method has the potential to form the first building block in a system for computerized screening of whole-slide images in lung cytology.
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Key words
cellular biophysics,feature extraction,image scanners,image segmentation,lung,medical image processing,needles,pattern clustering,ultrasonic imaging,adaptive thresholding,benign bronchial epithelium,cell nuclei segmentation,clustering,cytoplasm,endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration sample,granulocytes,histiocytes,lung cytology sample,lymphocytes,malignant epithelial cell,mean DICE-score,parallel computing hardware,time 7.8 s,whole-slide image segmentation,whole-slide scanner
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