Authors:
C. Grimaudo
1
;
D. Tegolo
1
;
C. Valenti
1
and
F. Bertuzzi
2
Affiliations:
1
Università di Palermo, Italy
;
2
Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione, Italy
Keyword(s):
Islets of Langherans, implantation advisability, image segmentation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Services
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing
Abstract:
This contribution deals with an unsupervised system to process digital photomicrographs in order to locate and analyze islets of Langherans in human pancreases. The experiment has been conducted on real data and, though we are still going to complete the evaluation of the whole method, we expect to define a set of proper features (e.g. area, perimeter, fractal dimension, shape complexity, texture and entropy) useful for a fast and reliable counting of healthy cells. In particular, this research aims to measure the advisability of a possible implantation in patients affected by type 1 diabetes mellitus.