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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2007.11.10.1992

Detection and Recognition of Uterine Cervical Carcinoma Cells in Pap Smear Using Kapur Method and Morphological Features  

Kim, Kwang-Baek (신라대학교 컴퓨터정보공학부)
Abstract
It is important to obtain conn cytodiagnosis to classify background, cytoplasm, and nucleus from the diagnostic image. This study mose an algorithm that detects and classifies carcinoma cells of the uterine cervix in Pap smear using features of cervical cancer. It applies Median filter and Gaussian filter to get noise-removed nucleus area and also applies Kapur method in binarization of the resultant image. We apply 8-directional contour tracking algorithm and stretching technique to identify and revise clustered cells that often hinder to obtain correct analysis. The resulted nucleus area has distinguishable features such as cell size, integration rate, and directional coefficient from normal cells so that we can detect and classify carcinoma cells successfully. The experiment results show that the performance of the algorithm is competitive with human expert.
Keywords
Cytodiagnosis; Uterine Cervical Pap smears; Kapur Method; 8-directional Contour Tracking Algorithm;
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