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Högberg J, Andersén C, Rydén T, Lagerlöf JH. Comparison of Otsu and an adapted Chan-Vese method to determine thyroid active volume using Monte Carlo generated SPECT images. EJNMMI Phys 2024; 11:6. [PMID: 38189877 PMCID: PMC10774246 DOI: 10.1186/s40658-023-00609-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND The Otsu method and the Chan-Vese model are two methods proven to perform well in determining volumes of different organs and specific tissue fractions. This study aimed to compare the performance of the two methods regarding segmentation of active thyroid gland volumes, reflecting different clinical settings by varying the parameters: gland size, gland activity concentration, background activity concentration and gland activity concentration heterogeneity. METHODS A computed tomography was performed on three playdough thyroid phantoms with volumes 20, 35 and 50 ml. The image data were separated into playdough and water based on Hounsfield values. Sixty single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) projections were simulated by Monte Carlo method with isotope Technetium-99 m ([Formula: see text]Tc). Linear combinations of SPECT images were made, generating 12 different combinations of volume and background: each with both homogeneous thyroid activity concentration and three hotspots of different relative activity concentrations (48 SPECT images in total). The relative background levels chosen were 5 %, 10 %, 15 % and 20 % of the phantom activity concentration and the hotspot activities were 100 % (homogeneous case) 150 %, 200 % and 250 %. Poisson noise, (coefficient of variation of 0.8 at a 20 % background level, scattering excluded), was added before reconstruction was done with the Monte Carlo-based SPECT reconstruction algorithm Sahlgrenska Academy reconstruction code (SARec). Two different segmentation algorithms were applied: Otsu's threshold selection method and an adaptation of the Chan-Vese model for active contours without edges; the results were evaluated concerning relative volume, mean absolute error and standard deviation per thyroid volume, as well as dice similarity coefficient. RESULTS Both methods segment the images well and deviate similarly from the true volumes. They seem to slightly overestimate small volumes and underestimate large ones. Different background levels affect the two methods similarly as well. However, the Chan-Vese model deviates less and paired t-testing showed significant difference between distributions of dice similarity coefficients (p-value [Formula: see text]). CONCLUSIONS The investigations indicate that the Chan-Vese model performs better and is slightly more robust, while being more challenging to implement and use clinically. There is a trade-off between performance and user-friendliness.
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- Jonas Högberg
- Department of Medical Radiation Physics, and Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.
- Department of image and Functional Diagnostics, Karlstad Central Hospital, Karlstad, Sweden.
- Centre for clinical research and education, Region Värmland, Karlstad, Sweden.
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Li H, Zhong J, Lin L, Chen Y, Shi P. Semi-supervised nuclei segmentation based on multi-edge features fusion attention network. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0286161. [PMID: 37228137 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0286161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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The morphology of the nuclei represents most of the clinical pathological information, and nuclei segmentation is a vital step in current automated histopathological image analysis. Supervised machine learning-based segmentation models have already achieved outstanding performance with sufficiently precise human annotations. Nevertheless, outlining such labels on numerous nuclei is extremely professional needing and time consuming. Automatic nuclei segmentation with minimal manual interventions is highly needed to promote the effectiveness of clinical pathological researches. Semi-supervised learning greatly reduces the dependence on labeled samples while ensuring sufficient accuracy. In this paper, we propose a Multi-Edge Feature Fusion Attention Network (MEFFA-Net) with three feature inputs including image, pseudo-mask and edge, which enhances its learning ability by considering multiple features. Only a few labeled nuclei boundaries are used to train annotations on the remaining mostly unlabeled data. The MEFFA-Net creates more precise boundary masks for nucleus segmentation based on pseudo-masks, which greatly reduces the dependence on manual labeling. The MEFFA-Block focuses on the nuclei outline and selects features conducive to segment, making full use of the multiple features in segmentation. Experimental results on public multi-organ databases including MoNuSeg, CPM-17 and CoNSeP show that the proposed model has the mean IoU segmentation evaluations of 0.706, 0.751, and 0.722, respectively. The model also achieves better results than some cutting-edge methods while the labeling work is reduced to 1/8 of common supervised strategies. Our method provides a more efficient and accurate basis for nuclei segmentations and further quantifications in pathological researches.
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- Huachang Li
- College of Computer and Cyber Security, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
- Digit Fujian Internet-of-Things Laboratory of Environmental Monitoring, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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- Department of Radiology, Clinical Oncology School of Fujian Medical University, Fujian Cancer Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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- Department of Pathology, Clinical Oncology School of Fujian Medical University, Fujian Cancer Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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- Department of Pathology, Clinical Oncology School of Fujian Medical University, Fujian Cancer Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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- College of Computer and Cyber Security, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
- Digit Fujian Internet-of-Things Laboratory of Environmental Monitoring, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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Braiki M, Nasreddine K, Benzinou A, Hymery N. Fuzzy Model for the Automatic Recognition of Human Dendritic Cells. J Imaging 2023; 9:jimaging9010013. [PMID: 36662111 PMCID: PMC9866805 DOI: 10.3390/jimaging9010013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Revised: 11/14/2022] [Accepted: 12/21/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Background and objective: Nowadays, foodborne illness is considered one of the most outgrowing diseases in the world, and studies show that its rate increases sharply each year. Foodborne illness is considered a public health problem which is caused by numerous factors, such as food intoxications, allergies, intolerances, etc. Mycotoxin is one of the food contaminants which is caused by various species of molds (or fungi), which, in turn, causes intoxications that can be chronic or acute. Thus, even low concentrations of Mycotoxin have a severely harmful impact on human health. It is, therefore, necessary to develop an assessment tool for evaluating their impact on the immune response. Recently, researchers have approved a new method of investigation using human dendritic cells, yet the analysis of the geometric properties of these cells is still visual. Moreover, this type of analysis is subjective, time-consuming, and difficult to perform manually. In this paper, we address the automation of this evaluation using image-processing techniques. Methods: Automatic classification approaches of microscopic dendritic cell images are developed to provide a fast and objective evaluation. The first proposed classifier is based on support vector machines (SVM) and Fisher's linear discriminant analysis (FLD) method. The FLD-SVM classifier does not provide satisfactory results due to the significant confusion between the inhibited cells on one hand, and the other two cell types (mature and immature) on the other hand. Then, another strategy was suggested to enhance dendritic cell recognition results that are emitted from microscopic images. This strategy is mainly based on fuzzy logic which allows us to consider the uncertainties and inaccuracies of the given data. Results: These proposed methods are tested on a real dataset consisting of 421 images of microscopic dendritic cells, where the fuzzy classification scheme efficiently improved the classification results by successfully classifying 96.77% of the dendritic cells. Conclusions: The fuzzy classification-based tools provide cell maturity and inhibition rates which help biologists evaluate severe health impacts caused by food contaminants.
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- Marwa Braiki
- ENIB, UMR CNRS 6285 LabSTICC, 29238 Brest, France
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- ENIB, UMR CNRS 6285 LabSTICC, 29238 Brest, France
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- Univ Brest, Laboratoire Universitaire de Biodiversité et Écologie Microbienne, 29280 Plouzané, France
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Potts C, Schearer J, Sebrell TA, Bair D, Ayler B, Love J, Dankoff J, Harris PR, Zosso D, Bimczok D. MNPmApp: An image analysis tool to quantify mononuclear phagocyte distribution in mucosal tissues. Cytometry A 2022; 101:1012-1026. [PMID: 35569131 PMCID: PMC9663762 DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.24657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Revised: 03/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Mononuclear phagocytes (MNPs) such as dendritic cells and macrophages perform key sentinel functions in mucosal tissues and are responsible for inducing and maintaining adaptive immune responses to mucosal pathogens. Positioning of MNPs at the epithelial interface facilitates their access to luminally-derived antigens and regulates MNP function through soluble mediators or surface receptor interactions. Therefore, accurately quantifying the distribution of MNPs within mucosal tissues as well as their spatial relationship with other cells is important to infer functional cellular interactions in health and disease. In this study, we developed and validated a MATLAB-based tissue cytometry platform, termed "MNP mapping application" (MNPmApp), that performs high throughput analyses of MNP density and distribution in the gastrointestinal mucosa based on digital multicolor fluorescence microscopy images and that integrates a Monte Carlo modeling feature to assess randomness of MNP distribution. MNPmApp identified MNPs in tissue sections of the human gastric mucosa with 98 ± 2% specificity and 76 ± 15% sensitivity for HLA-DR+ MNPs and 98 ± 1% specificity and 85 ± 12% sensitivity for CD11c+ MNPs. Monte Carlo modeling revealed that mean MNP-MNP distances for both HLA-DR+ and CD11c+ MNPs were significantly lower than anticipated based on random cell placement, whereas MNP-epithelial distances were similar to randomly placed cells. Surprisingly, H. pylori infection had no significant impact on the number of HLA-DR and CD11c MNPs or their distribution within the gastric lamina propria. However, our study demonstrated that MNPmApp is a reliable and user-friendly tool for unbiased quantitation of MNPs and their distribution at mucosal sites.
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- Catherine Potts
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
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- Division of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
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Shi P, Zhong J, Lin L, Lin L, Li H, Wu C. Nuclei segmentation of HE stained histopathological images based on feature global delivery connection network. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0273682. [PMID: 36107930 PMCID: PMC9477331 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2022] [Accepted: 08/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The analysis of pathological images, such as cell counting and nuclear morphological measurement, is an essential part in clinical histopathology researches. Due to the diversity of uncertain cell boundaries after staining, automated nuclei segmentation of Hematoxylin-Eosin (HE) stained pathological images remains challenging. Although better performances could be achieved than most of classic image processing methods do, manual labeling is still necessary in a majority of current machine learning based segmentation strategies, which restricts further improvements of efficiency and accuracy. Aiming at the requirements of stable and efficient high-throughput pathological image analysis, an automated Feature Global Delivery Connection Network (FGDC-net) is proposed for nuclei segmentation of HE stained images. Firstly, training sample patches and their corresponding asymmetric labels are automatically generated based on a Full Mixup strategy from RGB to HSV color space. Secondly, in order to add connections between adjacent layers and achieve the purpose of feature selection, FGDC module is designed by removing the jumping connections between codecs commonly used in UNet-based image segmentation networks, which learns the relationships between channels in each layer and pass information selectively. Finally, a dynamic training strategy based on mixed loss is used to increase the generalization capability of the model by flexible epochs. The proposed improvements were verified by the ablation experiments on multiple open databases and own clinical meningioma dataset. Experimental results on multiple datasets showed that FGDC-net could effectively improve the segmentation performances of HE stained pathological images without manual interventions, and provide valuable references for clinical pathological analysis.
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- Peng Shi
- College of Computer and Cyber Security, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
- Digit Fujian Internet-of-Things Laboratory of Environmental Monitoring, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
- * E-mail:
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- Department of Radiology, Fujian Medical University Cancer Hospital, Fujian Cancer Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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- Department of Pathology, Fujian Medical University Cancer Hospital, Fujian Cancer Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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- Department of Radiology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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- College of Computer and Cyber Security, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
- Digit Fujian Internet-of-Things Laboratory of Environmental Monitoring, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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- College of Computer and Cyber Security, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
- Digit Fujian Internet-of-Things Laboratory of Environmental Monitoring, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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Manimaran G, Airsang U, Bhowmick S, Girin A, Liu L, Lane C, S D, Firtion C, Vajinepalli P, Rajamani KT. Evaluation Tool to Diagnose Faults and Discrepancy in Semi-Automated or Manual Annotations in Ultrasound Cine Loops (Videos). ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2022; 2022:525-528. [PMID: 36086468 DOI: 10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Good quality (annotated) data is one of the most important aspects of supervised deep learning. Tasks such as semantic segmentation have a huge data requirement in exchange for only satisfactory performance. Large-scale annotations spread across multiple annotators tends to create inconsistencies, as there are various manual and semi-automated techniques involved. This mandates an external evaluator or expert to check and narrow down the problematic annotations. Studies have shown that even marking a few instances wrong in classification can lead to a significant performance drop in the model (mislabeling only 10% of one class can degrade the total performance of all classes by up to 10%). It has been noticed that fault localization by a medical expert is one of the most expensive and time-consuming processes. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for detecting the inconsistencies in the annotation of every object/anatomy in a specific image. We leverage the power of semi-supervised deep learning models (STCN) to help produce high-quality data for AI segmentation algorithms. Evaluation using this algorithm has been shown to reduce annotation review time by at least 5 hours for just 1000 images, and the quality of ground truth data improved thereby increasing the performance of the model by almost 3%.
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Paz C, Cabarcos A, Vence J, Gil C. Development of an active contour based algorithm to perform the segmentation of soot agglomerates in uneven illumination TEM imaging. POWDER TECHNOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2022.117260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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