MULTIFARIOUS SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE-ANALYSIS OF HISTOLOGIC COMPARTMENTS

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.