Texture analysis and tissue segmentation of cryosection images

Tamara S. Williams; Jennifer L. Casper

doi:10.1117/12.348500

21 May 1999 Texture analysis and tissue segmentation of cryosection images

Tamara S. Williams, Jennifer L. Casper

Proceedings Volume 3661, Medical Imaging 1999: Image Processing; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.348500
Event: Medical Imaging '99, 1999, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper outlines the exploration of two methods to detect texture in a digital cryosection image from the Visible Human Project. For the purpose of this research, texture is defined as a regular or irregular placement of color in an image. A higher-level decision-making algorithm was employed to extract different body tissues: fat, muscle, and bone. This algorithm was designed on the premise that each body tissue has a different visible texture. Another method utilized an artificial intelligence approach, a neural net, to extract textured tissues. Each problem demands a unique neural net; hence, this neural net is customized in terms of the image dataset and the goal of texture detection.

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Tamara S. Williams and Jennifer L. Casper "Texture analysis and tissue segmentation of cryosection images", Proc. SPIE 3661, Medical Imaging 1999: Image Processing, (21 May 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.348500

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