PMIQD 2019: A Pathological Microscopic Image Quality Database with Nonexpert and Expert Scores

  • Shuning Xu
  • , Menghan Hu*
  • , Wangyang Yu
  • , Jianlin Feng
  • , Qingli Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In medical diagnostic analysis, pathological microscopic image is often regarded as a gold standard, and hence the study of pathological microscopic image is of great necessity. High quality microscopic pathological images enable doctors to arrive at correct diagnosis. The pathological microscopic image is an important cornerstone for modernization and computerization of medical procedures. The quality of pathological microscopic images may be degraded due to a variety of reasons. It is difficult to acquire key information, so research for quality assessment of pathological microscopic image is quite necessary. In this paper, we perform a study on subjective quality assessment of pathological microscopic images and investigate whether the existing objective quality measures can be applied to the pathological microscopic images. Concretely, we establish a new pathological microscopic image quality database (PMIQD) which includes 425 pathological microscopic images with different quality degrees. The mean opinion scores rated by nonexperts and experts are calculated afterwards. Besides, we investigate the prediction performance of the existing popular image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms on PMIQD, including 8 no-reference (NR) methods. Experimental results demonstrate that the present objective models do not work well. IQA for pathological microscopic image needs to be developed for predicting the quality rated by nonexperts and experts.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication - 16th International Forum, IFTC 2019, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsGuangtao Zhai, Jun Zhou, Hua Yang, Ping An, Xiaokang Yang
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages293-301
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9789811533402
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event16th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2019 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 19 Sep 201920 Sep 2019

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1181
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference16th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period19/09/1920/09/19

Keywords

  • Database
  • No-reference model observer
  • Pathological microscopic image
  • Subjective image quality assessment

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