Unsupervised high-throughput segmentation of cells and cell nuclei in quantitative phase images

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Main Authors: Sistermanns, Julia, Emken, Ellen, Weirich, Gregor, Hayden, Oliver, Utschick, Wolfgang
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author Sistermanns, Julia
Emken, Ellen
Weirich, Gregor
Hayden, Oliver
Utschick, Wolfgang
author_facet Sistermanns, Julia
Emken, Ellen
Weirich, Gregor
Hayden, Oliver
Utschick, Wolfgang
contents In the effort to aid cytologic diagnostics by establishing automatic single cell screening using high throughput digital holographic microscopy for clinical studies thousands of images and millions of cells are captured. The bottleneck lies in an automatic, fast, and unsupervised segmentation technique that does not limit the types of cells which might occur. We propose an unsupervised multistage method that segments correctly without confusing noise or reflections with cells and without missing cells that also includes the detection of relevant inner structures, especially the cell nucleus in the unstained cell. In an effort to make the information reasonable and interpretable for cytopathologists, we also introduce new cytoplasmic and nuclear features of potential help for cytologic diagnoses which exploit the quantitative phase information inherent to the measurement scheme. We show that the segmentation provides consistently good results over many experiments on patient samples in a reasonable per cell analysis time.
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spellingShingle Unsupervised high-throughput segmentation of cells and cell nuclei in quantitative phase images
Sistermanns, Julia
Emken, Ellen
Weirich, Gregor
Hayden, Oliver
Utschick, Wolfgang
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Cell Behavior
Quantitative Methods
In the effort to aid cytologic diagnostics by establishing automatic single cell screening using high throughput digital holographic microscopy for clinical studies thousands of images and millions of cells are captured. The bottleneck lies in an automatic, fast, and unsupervised segmentation technique that does not limit the types of cells which might occur. We propose an unsupervised multistage method that segments correctly without confusing noise or reflections with cells and without missing cells that also includes the detection of relevant inner structures, especially the cell nucleus in the unstained cell. In an effort to make the information reasonable and interpretable for cytopathologists, we also introduce new cytoplasmic and nuclear features of potential help for cytologic diagnoses which exploit the quantitative phase information inherent to the measurement scheme. We show that the segmentation provides consistently good results over many experiments on patient samples in a reasonable per cell analysis time.
title Unsupervised high-throughput segmentation of cells and cell nuclei in quantitative phase images
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Cell Behavior
Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14639