AUTOMATED DETECTION OF DIAGNOSTICALLY RELEVANT REGIONS IN PATHOLOGY IMAGES

摘要

A method for distinguishing between different tissue types imaged in a virtual slide includes receiving an image of a tissue (200), wherein the tissue has been treated with a first stain and a second stain, dividing the image into a plurality of image patches (201), accentuating a difference between portions of the tissue stained by the first stain and portions of the tissue stained by the second stain to generated a plurality of preprocessed image patches (202), extracting a plurality of feature descriptors from each of the preprocessed image patches (203) according to a distribution of the portions of the tissue stained by the first stain and the portions of the tissue stained by the second stain, and classifying each of the image patches according to respective the feature descriptors (204).