Image understanding system for histopathology.
An image understanding machine vision system for histological diagnoses is based on three interacting expert systems: a diagnostic expert system utilizing terms familiar to pathologists, an interpretive expert system relating human diagnostic concepts to computable histometric features and a scene segmentation expert system which extracts the diagnostic information from the imagery. The control software for the image understanding system resides on a multiprocessor computer. This article details measures to maintain system efficiency and to accommodate the requirements of interprocess communication and processing task scheduling.
Bartels
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Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721.
Bibbo
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Graham
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Paplanus
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Shoemaker
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Thompson
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D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005103:Expert Systems; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010336:Pathology / Q000295:instrumentation*