Computer-aided prostate cancer diagnosis from digitized histopathology: a review on texture-based systems

C Mosquera-Lopez, S Agaian… - IEEE reviews in …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Prostate cancer (PCa) is currently diagnosed by microscopic evaluation of biopsy samples.
Since tissue assessment heavily relies on the pathologists level of expertise and …

Nuclear morphometry, epigenetic changes, and clinical relevance in prostate cancer

RW Veltri, CS Christudass - Cancer Biology and the Nuclear Envelope …, 2014 - Springer
Nuclear structure alterations in cancer involve global genetic (mutations, amplifications,
copy number variations, translocations, etc.) and epigenetic (DNA methylation and histone …

Structure and context in prostatic gland segmentation and classification

K Nguyen, A Sarkar, AK Jain - International Conference on Medical Image …, 2012 - Springer
A novel gland segmentation and classification scheme applied to an H&E histology image of
the prostate tissue is proposed. For gland segmentation, we associate appropriate nuclei …

Prostate cancer grading: use of graph cut and spatial arrangement of nuclei

K Nguyen, A Sarkar, AK Jain - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tissue image grading is one of the most important steps in prostate cancer diagnosis, where
the pathologist relies on the gland structure to assign a Gleason grade to the tissue image …

[HTML][HTML] The quantitative criteria based on the fractal dimensions, entropy, and lacunarity for the spatial distribution of cancer cell nuclei enable identification of low or …

P Waliszewski - Frontiers in physiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Background: Tumor grading, PSA concentration, and stage determine a risk of prostate
cancer patients with accuracy of about 70%. An approach based on the fractal geometrical …

Quaternion neural networks applied to prostate cancer gleason grading

A Greenblatt, C Mosquera-Lopez… - 2013 IEEE international …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Diagnosis of prostate cancer currently involves visual examination of samples for the
assignment of Gleason grades using a microscope, a time-consuming and subjective …

Exploration of efficacy of gland morphology and architectural features in prostate cancer gleason grading

CM Lopez, S Agaian, I Sanchez… - … on Systems, Man …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Prostate cancer automatic grading has attracted a lot of attention during the last years [1].
Many research efforts have been fixated on the development of computerized recognition …

A new set of wavelet-and fractals-based features for Gleason grading of prostate cancer histopathology images

CM Lopez, S Agaian - Image Processing: Algorithms and …, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Prostate cancer detection and staging is an important step towards patient treatment
selection. Advancements in digital pathology allow the application of new quantitative image …

Computer aided analysis of prostate histopathology images Gleason grading especially for Gleason score 7

J Ren, ET Sadimin, D Wang, JI Epstein… - 2015 37th Annual …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Clinically, prostate adenocarcinoma is diagnosed by recognizing certain morphology on
histology. While the Gleason grading system has been shown to be the strongest prognostic …

Automatic gleason grading of prostate cancer using Gabor filter and local binary patterns

MT Farooq, A Shaukat, U Akram… - 2017 40th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Prostate Cancer is one of the most common types of cancer found in men aged over 40
years. Detection and staging is the most critical step for pathologists. This research supports …