M. Klencki et al., MULTIFARIOUS SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE-ANALYSIS OF HISTOLOGIC COMPARTMENTS, Computers and biomedical research, 30(2), 1997, pp. 165-169
A system is presented for measuring relative volumes of histologic com
partments in microscopic slides. The computer program for that system
was written by us as an MS Windows 3.x application. The applied method
of measurements, based on the ''point-counting'' technique, requires
the recognition of the compartments, corresponding to the selected poi
nts of an image. The neural network was employed to facilitate the pro
cess of classification of the examined points. Nine descriptors of an
image were selected as an input to the network (a pattern). Error-free
compartment recognition was not always achieved because of some overl
apping of the pattern classes. Nevertheless, the semi-automation of th
e assignment of the examined points to histologic compartments makes t
he measurements less laborious and time-consuming. (C) 1997 Academic P
ress.