Article Dans Une Revue Polish journal of pathology : official journal of the Polish Society of Pathologists Année : 2022

A novel pre-processing approach based on colour space assessment for digestive neuroendocrine tumour grading in immunohistochemical tissue images

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The complexity of histopathological images remains a challenging issue in cancer diagnosis. A pathologist analyses immunohistochemical images to detect a colour based stain, which is brown for positive nuclei with different intensities and blue for negative nuclei. Several issues emerge during the eye balling tissue slide analysis, such as colour variations caused by stain in homogeneity, non-uniform illumination, irregular cell shapes, and over lapping cell nuclei. To overcome those problems, an automated computer-aided diagnosis system is proposed to segment and quantify digestive neuro endocrine tumours. We present a novel pre-processing approach based on colour space assessment. A criterion called pertinence degree is introduced to select the appropriate colour channel, followed by contrast enhancement. Subsequently, the adaptive local threshold technique that uses the modified Laplacian filter is applied to minimize the implementation complexity, highlight edges, and emphasize intensity variation between cells across the slide. Finally, the improved watershed algorithm based on the concave vertex graph is applied for cell separation. The performance of the algorithms for nucleus segmentation is evaluated according to both the object-level and pixel-level criteria. Our approach increases segmentation accuracy, with the F1-score equal to 0.986. There is significant agreement between the applied approach and the expert’s ground truth segmentation. The proposed method outperformed the state-of-the-art techniques based on recall, precision, the F1-score, and the Dice coefficient.

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hal-05068500 , version 1 (15-05-2025)

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Hana Rmili, Aymen Mouelhi, Basel Solaiman, Raoudha Doghri, Salam Labidi. A novel pre-processing approach based on colour space assessment for digestive neuroendocrine tumour grading in immunohistochemical tissue images. Polish journal of pathology : official journal of the Polish Society of Pathologists, 2022, 73 (2), pp.134 - 158. ⟨10.5114/pjp.2022.119841⟩. ⟨hal-05068500⟩
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