Title
Image Segmentation and Identification of Paired Antibodies in Breast Tissue.
Abstract
Comparing staining patterns of paired antibodies designed towards a specific protein but toward different epitopes of the protein provides quality control over the binding and the antibodies' ability to identify the target protein correctly and exclusively. We present a method for automated quantification of immunostaining patterns for antibodies in breast tissue using the Human Protein Atlas database. In such tissue, dark brown dye 3,3'-diaminobenzidine is used as an antibody-specific stain whereas the blue dye hematoxylin is used as a counterstain. The proposed method is based on clustering and relative scaling of features following principal component analysis. Our method is able (1) to accurately segment and identify staining patterns and quantify the amount of staining and (2) to detect paired antibodies by correlating the segmentation results among different cases. Moreover, the method is simple, operating in a low-dimensional feature space, and computationally efficient which makes it suitable for high-throughput processing of tissue microarrays.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1155/2014/647273
COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE
Field
DocType
Volume
Epitope,Computer vision,3,3'-Diaminobenzidine,Computer science,Image segmentation,Tissue Array Analysis,Artificial intelligence,Staining,Pathology,Antibody
Journal
2014
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1748-670X
1
0.36
References 
Authors
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jimmy C. Azar131.93
Martin Simonsson210.36
ewert bengtsson313525.36
Anders Hast410.36