Optimization of Digital Histopathology Image Quality
Author(s) -
Furat N. Tawfeeq,
Nada A.S. Alwan,
Basim Mohammed Khashman
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
iaes international journal of artificial intelligence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2252-8938
pISSN - 2089-4872
DOI - 10.11591/ijai.v7.i2.pp71-77
Subject(s) - computer science , fuzzy logic , pixel , histopathology , matlab , image (mathematics) , image quality , artificial intelligence , process (computing) , gaussian , computer vision , pathology , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , operating system
One of the biomedical image problems is the appearance of the bubbles in the slide that could occur when air passes through the slide during the preparation process. These bubbles may complicate the process of analysing the histopathological images. The objective of this study is to remove the bubble noise from the histopathology images, and then predict the tissues that underlie it using the fuzzy controller in cases of remote pathological diagnosis. Fuzzy logic uses the linguistic definition to recognize the relationship between the input and the activity, rather than using difficult numerical equation. Mainly there are five parts, starting with accepting the image, passing through removing the bubbles, and ending with predict the tissues. These were implemented by defining membership functions between colours range using MATLAB. Results: 50 histopathological images were tested on four types of membership functions (MF); the results show that (nine-triangular) MF get 75.4% correctly predicted pixels versus 69.1, 72.31 and 72% for (five- triangular), (five-Gaussian) and (nine-Gaussian) respectively. Conclusions: In line with the era of digitally driven e-pathology, this process is essentially recommended to ensure quality interpretation and analyses of the processed slides; thus overcoming relevant limitations.
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