This book develops a novel system to model the tubular structure in thin sections of testicular tissue and count the Sertoli cells. A three-phase method is proposed to model the tubular structure in microscopic images of the tissue; the model is deployed to detect the cells. In the first phase, the germ-mass, which represents the inside layer of tubules, are detected. All cells are detected by radial symmetry transform and then the graph cut algorithm is used to separate the germ cells. Each region covered by a compact set of germ cells is considered as the germ-mass. In the second phase, all...
This book develops a novel system to model the tubular structure in thin sections of testicular tissue and count the Sertoli cells. A three-phase meth...