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Depolarization metric spaces for biological tissues classification
Author(s) -
Van Eeckhout Albert,
GarciaCaurel Enric,
Ossikovski Razvigor,
Lizana Angel,
Rodríguez Carla,
GonzálezArnay Emilio,
Campos Juan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of biophotonics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.877
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1864-0648
pISSN - 1864-063X
DOI - 10.1002/jbio.202000083
Subject(s) - depolarization , metric (unit) , pattern recognition (psychology) , set (abstract data type) , computer science , artificial intelligence , polarimetry , biomedicine , biological tissue , classification scheme , biological system , machine learning , biology , biomedical engineering , physics , bioinformatics , scattering , optics , medicine , engineering , biophysics , operations management , programming language
Classification of tissues is an important problem in biomedicine. An efficient tissue classification protocol allows, for instance, the guided‐recognition of structures through treated images or discriminating between healthy and unhealthy regions (e.g., early detection of cancer). In this framework, we study the potential of some polarimetric metrics, the so‐called depolarization spaces, for the classification of biological tissues. The analysis is performed using 120 biological ex vivo samples of three different tissues types. Based on these data collection, we provide for the first time a comparison between these depolarization spaces, as well as with most commonly used depolarization metrics, in terms of biological samples discrimination. The results illustrate the way to determine the set of depolarization metrics which optimizes tissue classification efficiencies. In that sense, the results show the interest of the method which is general, and which can be applied to study multiple types of biological samples, including of course human tissues. The latter can be useful for instance, to improve and to boost applications related to optical biopsy.