STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR EDGE DETECTION IN HISTOLOGICAL IMAGES

D. Svoboda, I. A. Williams†, N. Bowring†, E. Guest

2006

Abstract

A review of the statistical techniques available for performing edge detection on histological images is presented. The tests under review include the Student’s T Test, the Fisher test, the Chi Square test, the Kolmogorov Smirnov test, and the Mann Whitney U test. All utilize a novel two sample edge detector to compare the statistical properties of two image regions surrounding a central pixel. The performance of the statistical tests is compared using histological biomedical images on which traditional gradient based techniques are not as successful, therefore giving an overall review of the methods, and results. Comparisons are also made to the more traditional Canny and Sobel, edge detection filters. The results show that in the presence of noise and clutter in histological images both parametric and non-parametric statistical tests compare well robustly extracting edge information on a series images.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Svoboda D., A. Williams† I., Bowring† N. and Guest E. (2006). STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR EDGE DETECTION IN HISTOLOGICAL IMAGES . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, ISBN 972-8865-40-6, pages 457-462. DOI: 10.5220/0001377904570462

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp06,
author={D. Svoboda and I. A. Williams† and N. Bowring† and E. Guest},
title={STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR EDGE DETECTION IN HISTOLOGICAL IMAGES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP,},
year={2006},
pages={457-462},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001377904570462},
isbn={972-8865-40-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP,
TI - STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR EDGE DETECTION IN HISTOLOGICAL IMAGES
SN - 972-8865-40-6
AU - Svoboda D.
AU - A. Williams† I.
AU - Bowring† N.
AU - Guest E.
PY - 2006
SP - 457
EP - 462
DO - 10.5220/0001377904570462