Mitosis detection in breast cancer using superpixels and ensemble classifiers

Abstract

Determining the severity and potential aggressiveness of breast cancer is an important step in the determination of the treatment options for a patient. Mitosis activity is one of the main components in breast cancer severity grading. Currently, mitosis counting is a laborious, prone to processing errors, done manually by a pathologist. This paper presents a novel approach for automatic mitosis detection, where promising candidates are selected from a superpixel segmentation of the image and classified using an ensemble classifier created from a selection from a pool of different color spaces, different features vector.