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Development of technologies led to the adoption of new digital imaging solutions in
pathology field. One such innovation is whole slide imaging, the main purpose of
which is digitalizing the whole glass slide with tissue into a high-resolution image.
This image is then divided into sections, which are zoomed for further analysis. The
main focus of examination is tissue body, but other materials such as debris, dust,
and glass are also presented on the slide. In order to focus only on tissue and to make
the analysis process more time- and memory-efficient, tissue location on the slide is
predefined. Currently, tissue localization procedure is performed by segmentation
algorithms based on classical methods of computer vision. These algorithms require
manual tuning and might be inaccurate on images with a lot of debris. The issue
could be solved with more adaptive methods like deep neural networks. This thesis
presents tissue segmentation pipeline based on deep convolutional neural networks.
Proposed pipeline showed that deep learning is capable of segmenting tissue as ac-
curately as the currently employed approach. |
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