Cervical cancer histology image identification method based on texture and lesion area features

Abstract The issue of an automated approach for detecting cervical cancer is proposed to improve the accuracy of recognition. Firstly, the cervical cancer histology source images are needed to use image preprocessing for reducing the impact brought by noise of images as well as the impact on subsequent precise feature extraction brought by irrelevant background. Secondly, the images are grouped into ten vertical images and the information of texture feature is extracted by Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM). GLCM is an effective tool to analyze the features of texture. The textures of different diseases in the source image of Cervical Cancer Histology (such as contrast, correlation, entropy, uniformity and energy, etc.) can all be obtained in this way. Thirdly, the image is segmented by using K-means clustering and Marker-controlled watershed Algorithm. And each vertical image is divided into three layers to calculate the areas of different layers. Based on GLCM and lesion area features, the tissues are investigated with segmentation by using Support Vector Machine (SVM) method. Finally, the results show that it is effective and feasible to recognize cervical cancer by automated approach and verified by experiment.

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