Recognizing signs of malignancy - The quest for computer assisted cancer screening and diagnosis systems

2010 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research, ICCIC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-6

  Bengtsson, E ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Automated microscopy; Cervical cancer; Image analysis; PAP smears; Screening

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CELL; AUTOMATED MICROSCOPY; CANCER DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CERVICAL CANCERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS SYSTEMS; PAP-SMEARS; SCREENING PROGRAMS; STATE OF THE ART; TISSUE SAMPLES; VISUAL EXAMINATION; VISUAL SCREENING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DISEASES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 79951789211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCIC.2010.5705885     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (39)

1. Parkin M, Bray F, Ferlay J, Pisani P. Global Cancer Statistics, 2002. CA Cancer J Clin, 55:74-108,2005. (Pubitemid 40372904)
2. Othman NH, Rebolj M. Challenges to Cervical Cancer Screening in a Developing Country: The Case of Malaysia. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 10:747-752, 2009.
3. Papanicolaou GN, Traut HF. Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer by the Vaginal Smear. Oxford University Press, New York, 1943.
4. Stenkvist B, Bergström R, Eklund G, Fox C. Papanicolaou Smear Screening and Cervical Cancer. What Can You Expect? JAMA 252:1423-1426,1984. (Pubitemid 14037005)
5. Christopherson WM, Parker JE, Mendez WM, Lundin FE. Cervix Cancer Rates and Mass Cytologic Screening. Cancer 26:808-811, 1970.
6. Bengtsson E. Fifty years of attempts to automate screening for cervical cancer. Medical Imaging Technology, 17:203-210, 1999.
7. Mellor RC, Silver R. A microfluorometric scanner for the differential detection of cells: application to exfoliate cytology. Science 114: 356-360, 1951.
8. Tolles WE, Bostrom RC. Automatic Screening of Cytological Smears for Cancer: The Instrumentation. Ann NY Acad Sci 63:1211-1218, 1956.
9. Spencer CC, Bostrom RC. Performance of the Cytoanalyzer in Recent Clinical Trials. Jour Nat Cancer Inst 29:267, 1962.
10. Spriggs AI, Diamond RA, Meyer EW. A New Principle for Automated Screening of Cervical Smears. Lancet 1:359, 1968.
11. Watanabe S and the CYBEST group: An Automated Apparatus for Cancer Prescreening: CYBEST. Comp Graph Image Proc 3:350-358, 1974
12. Tanaka N, Ikeda H, Ueno T, Takahashi M, Imasato Y. Fundamental study of automatic cyto-screening for uterine cancer. I. Feature evaluation for the pattern recognition system. Acta Cytologica 21(1):72-78, 1977.
13. Tanaka, N, Ikeda, H, Ueno, T, Watanabe, S, Imasato, Y. Fundamental study of automatic cyto-screening for uterine cancer. II. Segmentation of cells and computer simulation. Acta Cytologica 21(1):79-84, 1977. (Pubitemid 8047482)
14. Tanaka N, Ueno T, Ikeda H, Ishikawa A, Yamauchi K, Okamoto Y, Hosoi S. CYBEST Model 4: Automated cytologic screening system for uterine cancer utilizing image analysis processing. Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology 9(5):449-453, 1987.
15. Zahniser DJ: Automation of Pap Smear Analysis: A Review and Status Report. In Haralick, RM (ed.): Pictorial Data Analysis. Springer, 1983
16. Erhardt R, Reinhardt E, Schlipf W, Bloss WH: FAZYTAN: A System for Fast Automated Cell Segmentation, Cell Image Analysis and Feature Extraction Based on TV-image Pickup and Parallel Processing. Analyt Quant Cytol 2:25-40, 1980. (Pubitemid 10147266)
17. Tucker JH, Husain OAN: Trials with the CERVISCAN Experimental Prescreening Device on Polylysine-prepared Slides. Analyt Quant Cytol 3:117-120, 1981. (Pubitemid 11065733)
18. Ploem JS, van Driel-Kulker AMJ, Verwoerd NP: LEYTAS - A Cytology Screening System Using the New Modular Image Analysis Computer (MIAC) from Leitz. In Burger G, Ploem JS, Goerttler K (eds.): Clinical Cytometry and Histometry: 24-35, Academic Press, London, 1987.
19. Nordin B: The Development of an Automated Prescreener for the Early Detection of Cervical Cancer. Algorithms and Implementation. PhD Thesis, Uppsala Univ.155 p, 1989.
20. Burger, G, Jutting, U, and Rodenacker, K. Changes in benign cell populations in cases of cervical cancer and its precursors. Analytical and Quantitative Cytology 3(4):261-271, 1981. (Pubitemid 12251361)
21. Kemp RA, MacAulay CE, Garner D, Palcic B. Detection of malignancy associated changes in cervical cell nuclei using feed-forward neural networks, Anal. Cell. Pathol. 14: 31-40, 1997. (Pubitemid 27418105)
22. MacAulay C, Palcic B. An edge relocation segmentation algorithm. Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology 12(3):165-171, 1990. (Pubitemid 20312856)
23. Kuhl FP, Giardina CR. Elliptic Fourier features of a closed contour. Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 18(3):236-258, 1982.
24. Haralick RM, Shanmugam K, Dinstein I. Textural features for image classification. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 3(6):610-621, 1973.
25. Galloway MM. Texture analysis using gray level run lengths. Computer Graphics and Image Processing 4(2):172-179. 1975.
26. MacAulay C, Palcic B. Fractal texture features based on optical density surface area. Use in image analysis of cervical cells. Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology 12(6):394-398, 1990.
27. Schulerud H, Kristensen GB, Liestøl K, Vlatkovic L, Reith A, Albregtsen, F, Danielsen HE. A review of caveats in statistical nuclear image analysis, Analytical Cellular Path., 16: 63-82, 1998. (Pubitemid 28218614)
28. Koss LG. The Papanicolaou Test for Cervical Cancer Detection - A Triumph and a Tragedy. JAMA 261:737-743, 1989. (Pubitemid 19047323)
29. Hutchinson ML, Cassin CM, Ball HG. The Efficacy of an Automated Preparation Device for Cervical Cytology. Am J. Clinical Path. 96:300-305, 1991.
30. Howell LP, Davis RL, Belk TI, Agdigos R, Lowe J. The AutoCyte preparation system for gynaecologic cytology. Acta Cytol., 42:171-177, 1998. (Pubitemid 28086790)
31. DeCresce RP, Lifshitz MS: PAPNET Cytological Screening System. Lab Medicine 22: 276-280, 1991.
32. Lee J, Nelson A, Wilbur DC, Patten SF. The Development of an Automated Papanicolau Smear Screening System. Cancer, 81: 332-336, 1998.
33. http://www.bd.com/tripath/labs/fp-screening.asp Accessed October 2010
34. http://www.thinprep.com/hcp/pap-testing.html Accessed October 2010.
35. Bernstein S, Sanchez-Ramos L, Ndubisi B. Liquid-based cervical cytologic smear study and conventional Papanicolaou smear: a metaanalysis of prospective studies comparing cytologic diagnosis and sample adequacy. Am J Obstet Gynecol.185:308-317, 2001. (Pubitemid 32769428)
36. Katz IT, Wright AA. Preventing Cervical Cancer in the Developing World. N Engl J Med. 354:1110, 2005.
37. Vernick, JP. The Pap smear: a victim of its own success? Medical Laboratory Observer, August 2002.
38. Willis BH, Barton P, Pearmain P, Bryan S, Hyde C Cervical screening programmes: can automation help? Evidence from systematic reviews, an economic analysis and a simulation modelling exercise applied to the UK. Health technology assessment 9(13): 1-207, iii, 2005.
39. Population Reference Bureau, PATH. Preventing cervical cancer worldwide. 2004. Accessed Oct. 2010 at http://www.path.org/files/RH-prp-accp-cervical- cancer-worldw.pdf