Automatic detection of multi-level acetowhite regions in RGB color images of the uterine cervix

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5747, Issue II, 2005, Pages 1004-1017

  Lange, Holger ^a  

^a STI Med Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetowhite; Colposcopy; Region segmentation; Uterine cervical cancer

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; GYNECOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ACETOWHITE; COLPOSCOPY; REGION SEGMENTATION; UTERINE CERVICAL CANCER;

TUMORS;

EID: 23844514158     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.596064     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. http://www-depdb.iarc.fr/globocan2002.htm
2. B.S. Apgar, Brotzman, G.L. and Spitzer, M., Colposcopy: Principles and Practice, W.B. Saunders Company: Philadelphia, 2002
3. Reid R, Scalzi P. Genital warts and cervical cancer. VII An improved colposcopic index for differentiating benign papillomaviral infection from high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1985;153:611-618
4. Frost & Sullivan; Market Research; U.S. Computer Aided Detection (CAD) Markets - An Analysis of an Emerging Market; June 23, 2003
5. Lange H. and Ferris. Daron G.; Computer-Aided-Diagnosis (CAD) for colposcopy; SPIE Medical Imaging 2005; SPIE Proc. 5747, 2005
6. Gustafsson U., McLaughlin E., Jacobson E., Håkansson J., Troy P., DeWeert M., Pålsson S., Soto Thompson M., Svanberg S., Vaitkuviene A., and Svanberg K.; Fluorescence and reflectance monitoring of human cervical tissue in vivo -a case study; SPIE Photonics West Biomedical Optics (BiOS) 2003; SPIE Proc. 4959, 2003
7. Gustafsson U., McLaughlin E., Jacobson E., Håkansson J., Troy P., DeWeert M., Pålsson S., Soto Thompson M., Svanberg S., Vaitkuviene A., and Svanberg K.; In vivo fluorescence and reflectance imaging of human cervical tissue; SPIE Medical Imaging 2003; SPIE Proc. 5031, 2003
8. Lange H.; Automatic glare removal in reflectance imagery of the uterine cervix; SPIE Medical Imaging 2005; SPIE Proc. 5747, 2005