Multispectral image enhancement for H&E stained pathological tissue specimens

Pinky A. Bautista; Tokiya Abe; Masahiro Yamaguchi; Nagaaki Ohyama; Yukako Yagi

doi:10.1117/12.771046

15 March 2008 Multispectral image enhancement for H&E stained pathological tissue specimens

Pinky A. Bautista, Tokiya Abe, Masahiro Yamaguchi, Nagaaki Ohyama, Yukako Yagi

Proceedings Volume 6918, Medical Imaging 2008: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling; 691836 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.771046
Event: Medical Imaging, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The presence of a liver disease such as cirrhosis can be determined by examining the proliferation of collagen fiber from a tissue slide stained with special stain such as the Masson's trichrome(MT) stain. Collagen fiber and smooth muscle, which are both stained the same in an H&E stained slide, are stained blue and pink respectively in an MT-stained slide. In this paper we show that with multispectral imaging the difference between collagen fiber and smooth muscle can be visualized even from an H&E stained image. In the method M KL bases are derived using the spectral data of those H&E stained tissue components which can be easily differentiated from each other, i.e. nucleus, cytoplasm, red blood cells, etc. and based on the spectral residual error of fiber weighting factors are determined to enhance spectral features at certain wavelengths. Results of our experiment demonstrate the capability of multispectral imaging and its advantage compared to the conventional RGB imaging systems to delineate tissue structures with subtle colorimetric difference.

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Pinky A. Bautista, Tokiya Abe, Masahiro Yamaguchi, Nagaaki Ohyama, and Yukako Yagi "Multispectral image enhancement for H&E stained pathological tissue specimens", Proc. SPIE 6918, Medical Imaging 2008: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, 691836 (15 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.771046

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