Pre-cancer risk assessment in habitual smokers from DIC images of oral exfoliative cells using active contour and SVM analysis |
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Authors: | Susmita Dey Ripon Sarkar Kabita Chatterjee Pallab Datta Ananya Barui Santi P Maity |
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Institution: | 1. Centre for Health Care Science and Technology, IIEST, Shibpur, India;2. B.P. Poddar Institute of Management & Technology, 137, V.I.P. Road, Kolkata, India;3. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Buddha Institute of Dental Sciences, Patna, India;4. Department of Information Technology, IIEST, Shibpur, India |
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Abstract: | Habitual smokers are known to be at higher risk for developing oral cancer, which is increasing at an alarming rate globally. Conventionally, oral cancer is associated with high mortality rates, although recent reports show the improved survival outcomes by early diagnosis of disease. An effective prediction system which will enable to identify the probability of cancer development amongst the habitual smokers, is thus expected to benefit sizable number of populations. Present work describes a non-invasive, integrated method for early detection of cellular abnormalities based on analysis of different cyto-morphological features of exfoliative oral epithelial cells. Differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy provides a potential optical tool as this mode provides a pseudo three dimensional (3-D) image with detailed morphological and textural features obtained from noninvasive, label free epithelial cells. For segmentation of DIC images, gradient vector flow snake model active contour process has been adopted. To evaluate cellular abnormalities amongst habitual smokers, the selected morphological and textural features of epithelial cells are compared with the non-smoker (?ve control group) group and clinically diagnosed pre-cancer patients (+ve control group) using support vector machine (SVM) classifier. Accuracy of the developed SVM based classification has been found to be 86% with 80% sensitivity and 89% specificity in classifying the features from the volunteers having smoking habit. |
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Keywords: | Oral cancer Exfoliative cytology Non-invasive detection DIC image SVM classifier |
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