Depolarization metric spaces for biological tissues classification

Classification of tissues is an important problem in biomedicine. An efficient tissue classification protocol allows, for instance, the guided-recognition of structures through treated images or discriminating between healthy and unhealthy regions (e.g., early detection of cancer). In this framework...

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Autores: Van Eeckhout, Albert, García-Caurel, Enric, Ossikovski, Razvigor, Lizana, Angel, Rodríguez, Carla, González-Arnay, Emilio, Campos, Juan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/694059
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/694059
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbio.202000083
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:biological tissue
biomedical
depolarization
imaging
Mueller matrix
polarimetry
Medicina
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Sumario:Classification of tissues is an important problem in biomedicine. An efficient tissue classification protocol allows, for instance, the guided-recognition of structures through treated images or discriminating between healthy and unhealthy regions (e.g., early detection of cancer). In this framework, we study the potential of some polarimetric metrics, the so-called depolarization spaces, for the classification of biological tissues. The analysis is performed using 120 biological ex vivo samples of three different tissues types. Based on these data collection, we provide for the first time a comparison between these depolarization spaces, as well as with most commonly used depolarization metrics, in terms of biological samples discrimination. The results illustrate the way to determine the set of depolarization metrics which optimizes tissue classification efficiencies. In that sense, the results show the interest of the method which is general, and which can be applied to study multiple types of biological samples, including of course human tissues. The latter can be useful for instance, to improve and to boost applications related to optical biopsy.