Method for classifying supposedly cancerous cytologic preparations and apparatus for identifying supposedly cancerous cytologic preparations effecting this method

摘要

A method and apparatus for classification of supposedly cancerous cytologic preparations with reference to images of cells of these preparations, whereby a preset number n of optical density levels is discriminated in the image of cells of said preparations, the geometrical parameters of cells are measured at each preset level of optical density, and then, on the basis of all the measured geometrical parameters of said cells, the position of each cell is established in the n-dimensional space of these geometrical parameters, each cell being classified as normal or atypical, depending upon its position relative to a hypersurface preset for a given localization.