Special issue on the analysis and recognition of indirect immuno-fluorescence images

摘要

Pattern recognition techniques are widely used in the field of medicine for the development of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system. Such systems may support the physician in many ways: they can be adopted as a second reader, thus augmenting the physician's capabilities and reducing errors; they allow to perform a pre-selection of the cases to be examined, enabling the physician to focus his/her attention only on the most relevant cases, making it easier to carry out mass screening campaigns; they may aid the physician while he/she carries out the diagnosis; finally, they can be used as a tool for training and education of specialized medical personnel.