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SUBMITTER: Belkacem-Boussaid K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3151327 | biostudies-other | 2011 Oct-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Belkacem-Boussaid K K Samsi S S Lozanski G G Gurcan M N MN
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society 20110420 7-8
Follicular Lymphoma (FL) accounts for 20-25% of non-Hodgkin lymphomas in the United States. The first step in grading FL is identifying follicles. Our paper discusses a novel technique to segment follicular regions in H&E stained images. The method is based on three successive steps: (1) region-based segmentation, (2) iterative shape index (concavity index) calculation, (3) and recursive watershed. A novel aspect of this method is the use of iterative Concavity Index (CI) to control the follicul ...[more]