Ricerc@Sapienza

Human computer interface (HCI) has become more and more important in the last few years. This is mainly due to the increase in the technology and in the new possibilities in yielding a help to disabled people. Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) represent a subset of the HCI systems which use measurements of the voluntary brain activity for driving a communication system mainly useful for severely disabled people. Electroencephalography (EEG) has been intensively used for the measurement of electrical signals related to the brain activity.

Light Microscopy (LM) represents the method by which pathologists study histological sections; the observations by LM can be considered the gold standard for making diagnosis and for its diagnostic accuracy. The classes that can be defined through the observation of LM images of the liver are: normal, steatosis, fibrosis, cirrhosis and hepatocarcinoma (HCC). Normally, a pathologist has to examine by LM many histological sections to perform a complete and accurate diagnosis. For this reason, an automatic system for the analysis of LM images of the liver would be particularly useful.