Ensemble framework for unsupervised cervical cell segmentation

A Sen, S Mitra, S Chakraborty, D Mondal… - 2022 IEEE 35th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In medical image segmentation, preparing ground truths (or masks) is not trivial as it
requires expert clinicians to manually label regions-of-interest. Cervical cytology image …

Spatial shape constrained fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering for nucleus segmentation in pap smear images

R Saha, M Bajger, G Lee - 2016 international conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precise segmentation of Pap smear cell nucleus is crucial for early diagnosis of cervical
cancer. This task is particularly challenging because of cell overlapping, inconsistent …

Semi-automatic segmentation of overlapping cells in pap smear image

SK Singh, R Singh, A Goyal - 2018 4th International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cervical cancer can be prevented only at early stage. Regular pap-smear tests generally
recommended by doctors for cervical cancer detection can be more costly for people of …

A novel unsupervised segmentation method for overlapping cervical cell images

L Zhao, J Yin, Y Ye, K Li, M Qiu - … International Conference on …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Overlapping cell segmentation is a prerequisite for the analysis of cervical smear images.
Because of the complexity of overlapping situations and the poor contrast of overlapping …

Segmenting overlapping cervical cell in pap smear images

Y Song, JZ Cheng, D Ni, S Chen… - 2016 IEEE 13th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate segmentation of cervical cells in Pap smear images is an important task for
automatic identification of pre-cancerous changes in the uterine cervix. One of the major …

An unsupervised approach for overlapping cervical cell cytoplasm segmentation

P Kumar, SL Happy, S Chatterjee… - 2016 IEEE EMBS …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The poor contrast and the overlapping of cervical cell cytoplasm are the major issues in the
accurate segmentation of cervical cell cytoplasm. This paper presents an automated …

Segmentation of overlapping cervical cells in microscopic images with superpixel partitioning and cell-wise contour refinement

H Lee, J Kim - Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer …, 2016 - cv-foundation.org
Segmentation of cervical cells in microscopic images is an important task for computer-aided
diagnosis of cervical cancer. However, their segmentation is challenging due to …

Segmentation of overlapping cervical cells: A variational method with star-shape prior

MS Nosrati, G Hamarneh - 2015 IEEE 12th International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and automatic detection and delineation of cervical cells are two critical precursor
steps to automatic Pap smear image analysis and detecting pre-cancerous changes in the …

Accurate cervical cell segmentation from overlapping clumps in pap smear images

Y Song, EL Tan, X Jiang, JZ Cheng, D Ni… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate segmentation of cervical cells in Pap smear images is an important step in
automatic pre-cancer identification in the uterine cervix. One of the major segmentation …

Unsupervised segmentation of cervical cell nuclei via adaptive clustering

S Gautam, K Gupta, A Bhavsar, AK Sao - … 2017, Edinburgh, UK, July 11–13 …, 2017 - Springer
Owing to the uncertainties of manual screening, automated diagnostic tools can aid in
improving the reliability of cervical cancer diagnosis. Due to pre-cancerous changes, cell …