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This work presents an approach based on image texture analysis to obtain a description of oocyte cytoplasm which could aid the clinicians in the selection of oocytes to be used in the assisted insemination process. More specifically, we address the problem of providing a description of the oocyte cytoplasm in terms of regular patterns of granularity which are related to oocyte quality. To this aim, we perform a texture analysis on the cytoplasm region and apply a spatial fuzzy clustering to segment the cytoplasm into different granular regions. Preliminary experimental results on a collection of light microscope images of oocytes are reported to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
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Caponetti, L., Castellano, G., Corsini, V., Basile, T.M.A. (2011). Cytoplasm Image Segmentation by Spatial Fuzzy Clustering. In: Fanelli, A.M., Pedrycz, W., Petrosino, A. (eds) Fuzzy Logic and Applications. WILF 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6857. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23713-3_32
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