| 摘要 |
The present invention provides a method for automatically distinguishing between epithelial tissue from other regions of a biological specimen using computer image analysis, epithelial tissue being characterised by clumped cells, the method comprising: ```thresholding a stained biological specimen to provide an image mask of the biological specimen, the image mask distinguishing between stained and non-stained areas of the biological specimen, the stained areas comprising epithelial tissue; and ```identifying isolated areas of the image mask representing stained areas of the biological specimen in the image mask and adapting the image mask such that the isolated areas represent non-stained areas of the biological specimen. |
