同时分割细胞核并校正染色差异,提升病理图像分析准确性。
SiliCoN: Simultaneous Nuclei Segmentation and Color Normalization of Histological Images
- 联合建模细胞核分割与染色归一化,利用截断正态分布和空间注意力机制。
- 在三个公开数据集上表现优于现有方法,有效应对染色不均问题。
- 适合需要高精度病理图像分析的研究者,尤其关注染色变异场景。
从组织学图像中分割细胞核区域是自动化辅助分析的重要任务,尤其是在染色组织图像存在显著颜色差异的情况下。尽管颜色归一化有助于提升细胞核分割效果,但准确的细胞核分割又能简化颜色归一化过程。本文提出一种新型深度生成模型,可同时实现细胞核分割与染色外观归一化。该模型融合截断正态分布与空间注意力机制,假设潜在颜色特征独立于细胞核分割图和嵌入特征,从而实现解耦表示,增强泛化性与适应性。针对染色剂重叠问题,引入混合截断正态分布作为颜色代码先验。通过在多个公开标准组织学图像数据集上的实验验证,所提方法在分割与归一化性能上均优于现有先进算法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Segmentation of nuclei regions from histological images is an important task for automated computer-aided analysis of histological images, particularly in the presence of impermissible color variation in the color appearance of stained tissue images. While color normalization enables better nuclei segmentation, accurate segmentation of nuclei structures makes color normalization rather trivial. In this respect, the paper proposes a novel deep generative model for simultaneously segmenting nuclei structures and normalizing color appearance of stained histological images.This model judiciously integrates the merits of truncated normal distribution and spatial attention. The model assumes that the latent color appearance information, corresponding to a particular histological image, is independent of respective nuclei segmentation map as well as embedding map information. The disentangled representation makes the model generalizable and adaptable as the modification or loss in color appearance information cannot be able to affect the nuclei segmentation map as well as embedding information. Also, for dealing with the stain overlap of associated histochemical reagents, the prior for latent color appearance code is assumed to be a mixture of truncated normal distributions. The proposed model incorporates the concept of spatial attention for segmentation of nuclei regions from histological images. The performance of the proposed approach, along with a comparative analysis with related state-of-the-art algorithms, has been demonstrated on publicly available standard histological image data sets.
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