The Relevance of Computer-Aided-Diagnosis Systems in Microscopy Applications to Medicine and Biology

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Author(s): Paolo Soda (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy)and Giulio Iannello (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 8
Source title: Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nilmini Wickramasinghe (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)and Eliezer Geisler (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch147

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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In this article, we discuss the use of computerbased systems in microscopy, focusing on cytological images. We initially present recent results on image segmentation, and then we argue that it makes sense moving from a structural approach to a semantic interpretation of micrographs. In this respect, we focus on the relevance of using CAD tools to overcome the current limitations of microscopy, investigating several peculiar objectives of such systems. A short review of the literature demonstrates that the development of a flexible CAD applicable to various working scenarios is a future trend in microscopy healthcare systems. To support our position, we briefly describe a tool that analyzes and classifies fluorescence images.

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