IntegriSense molecular image sequence classification using Gaussian mixture model

Tiancheng He; Zhong Xue; Kongkuo Lu; Miguel Valdivia y Alvarado; Stephen T. Wong

doi:10.1117/12.910832

16 April 2012 IntegriSense molecular image sequence classification using Gaussian mixture model

Tiancheng He, Zhong Xue, Kongkuo Lu, Miguel Valdivia y Alvarado, Stephen T. Wong

Proceedings Volume 8317, Medical Imaging 2012: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging; 831722 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.910832
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Targeted fluorescence imaging agents such as IntegriSense 680 can be used to label integrin α_vβ₃ expressed in tumor cells and to distinguish tumor from normal tissues. Coupled with endomicroscopy and image-guided intervention devices, fluorescence contrast captured from the fiber-optic imaging technique can be used in a Minimally Invasive Multimodality Image Guided (MIMIG) system for on-site peripheral lung cancer diagnosis. In this work, we propose an automatic quantification approach for IntegriSense-based fluorescence endomicroscopy image sequences. First, a sliding time-window is used to calculate the histogram of the frames at a given timepoint, also denoted as the IntegriSense signal. The intensity distributions of the endomicroscopy image sequences can be briefly classified into three groups: high, middle and low intensities, which might correspond to tumor, normal tissue, and background (air) tissues within the lungs, respectively. At a given time-point, the histogram calculated from the sliding time-window is fit with a Gaussian mixture model, and the average and standard deviation (std), as well as the weight of each Gaussian distribution can be identified. Finally, a threshold can be used to the weighting parameter of the high intensity group for tumor information detection. This algorithm can be used as an automatic tumor detection tool from IntegriSense-based endomicroscopy. In experiments, we validated the algorithm using 20 IntegriSense-based fluorescence endomicroscopy image sequences collected from 6 rabbit experiments, where VX2 tumor was implanted into the lung of each rabbit, and image-guided endomicroscopy was performed. The automatic classification results were compared with manual results, and high sensitivity and specificity were obtained.

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Tiancheng He, Zhong Xue, Kongkuo Lu, Miguel Valdivia y Alvarado, and Stephen T. Wong "IntegriSense molecular image sequence classification using Gaussian mixture model", Proc. SPIE 8317, Medical Imaging 2012: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 831722 (16 April 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.910832

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