Quantification of Matching Results for Autofluorescence Intensity Images and Histology Images

Malihe Javidi, Qiang Wang, Marta Vallejo*

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Abstract

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy utilises lifetime contrast to effectively discriminate between healthy and cancerous tissues. The co-registration of autofluorescence images with the gold standard, histology images, is essential for a thorough understanding and clinical diagnosis. As a preliminary step of co-registration, since histology images are whole-slide images covering the entire tissue, the histology patch corresponding to the autofluorescence image must be located using a template matching method. A significant difficulty in a template matching framework is distinguishing correct matching results from incorrect ones. This is extremely challenging due to the different nature of both images. To address this issue, we provide fully experimental results for quantifying template matching outcomes via a diverse set of metrics. Our research demonstrates that the Kullback Leibler divergence and misfit-percent are the most appropriate metrics for assessing the accuracy of our matching results. This finding is further supported by statistical analysis utilising the t-test.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - ICPRAM
EditorsModesto Castrillón-Santana, Maria De Marsico, Ana Fred
PublisherSCITEPRESS
Pages706-713
Number of pages8
Volume1
ISBN (Print)9789897586842
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Feb 2024
Event13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Rome, Italy
Duration: 24 Feb 202426 Feb 2024
https://icpram.scitevents.org/?y=2024

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods
Abbreviated titleICPRAM 2024
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRome
Period24/02/2426/02/24
Internet address

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