Research goal:
To improve skin melanoma diagnosis by providing additional means of automatic detection of important diagnostic features in histopathological images.

The research topics include:

• tissue segmentation
• epidermis segmentation
• epidermal morphometry measurement

Research activity:

• Dariusz Kucharski, Pawel Kleczek, Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska, Grzegorz Dyduch, Marek Gorgon. Semi-Supervised Nests of Melanocytes Segmentation Method Using Convolutional Autoencoders. Sensors, 2020, vol. 20, issue 6, 1546, doi: 10.3390/s20061546 (HTML)
  [IF5 (2018) = 2.737, Top10]
• Pawel Kleczek, Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska, Marek Gorgon. A novel method for tissue segmentation in high-resolution H&E-stained histopathological whole-slide images. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 2020, vol. 79, 2022, Art. ID 101686, doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2019.101686 (HTML)
  [IF5 (2018) = 2.737, Top10]
• Pawel Kleczek, Grzegorz Dyduch, Agnieszka Graczyk-Jarzynka, Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska. A New Approach to Border Irregularity Assessment with Application in Skin Pathology. Applied Sciences (Basel), 2019, 9(10), 2022, doi: 10.3390/app9102022 (Abstract, HTML, PDF)
  [IF5 (2018) = 2.287]
• Paweł Kłeczek, Martyna Lech, Grzegorz Dyduch, Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. Segmentation of black ink and melanin in skin histopathological images. Proc. SPIE 10581, Medical Imaging 2018: Digital Pathology, 105811A (2018); doi: 10.1117/12.2292859. (Abstract)
• Paweł Kłeczek, Grzegorz Dyduch, Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. Automated epidermis segmentation in histopathological images of human skin stained with hematoxylin and eosin. Proc. SPIE 10140, Medical Imaging 2017: Digital Pathology, 101400M (2017). doi: 10.1117/12.2249018. (Abstract, Poster PDF)
• Paweł Kłeczek, Sylwia Mól, Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska. The Accuracy of H&E Stain Unmixing Techniques When Estimating Relative Stain Concentrations. PCBBE 2017: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer (2017), doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-66905-2_7, pp. 87–97 (Abstract)