Automatic Segmentation and Classification of Human Intestinal Parasites from Microscopy Images

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@Article{Suzuki:2012:ieeeTBME,

• author = "Celso T. N. Suzuki and Jancarlo F. Gomes and Alexandre X. Falcao and Joao P. Papa and Sumie Hoshino-Shimizu",
• title = "Automatic Segmentation and Classification of Human Intestinal Parasites from Microscopy Images",
• journal = "IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering",
• year = "2013",
• volume = "60",
• number = "3",
• pages = "803--812",
• month = mar,
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, image foresting transform (IFT), image segmentation, intestinal parasitosis, microscopy image analysis, optimum-path forest (OPF) classifier, pattern recognition.",
• DOI = "doi:10.1109/TBME.2012.2187204",
• ISSN = "0018-9294",
• size = "10 pages",
• abstract = "Human intestinal parasites constitute a problem in most tropical countries, causing death or physical and mental disorders. Their diagnosis usually relies on the visual analysis of microscopy images, with error rates that may range from moderate to high. The problem has been addressed via computational image analysis, but only for a few species and images free of fecal impurities. In routine, fecal impurities are a real challenge for automatic image analysis. We have circumvented this problem by a method that can segment and classify, from bright field microscopy images with fecal impurities, the 15 most common species of protozoan cysts, helminth eggs, and larvae in Brazil. Our approach exploits ellipse matching and image foresting transform for image segmentation, multiple object descriptors and their optimum combination by genetic programming for object representation, and the optimum-path forest classifier for object recognition. The results indicate that our method is a promising approach toward the fully automation of the enteroparasitosis diagnosis.",
• notes = "Also known as \cite{6146453}",

}

Genetic Programming entries for Celso Tetsuo Nagase Suzuki Jancarlo Ferreira Gomes Alexandre X Falcao Joao Paulo Papa Sumie Hoshino-Shimizu

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