Cesar: A computer supported measurement system for the enhancement of diagnostics and quality in cytology

Abstract In the following presentation, the concept of the CESAR Cytology system (CE11 Screen and Analysing Routine system) is introduced, which unlike conventional systems also comprehensively integrates human empiric knowledge in the evaluation and interpretation of the measurement results. For this purpose CESAR is especially equipped with an object-oriented data base. Due to its special structure graphical presentations of the measurement or classification results (histograms, scatterplots) can be used as directories of a cell image data base. In this way the numerical results can be ‘translated’ into cell images with a similar content of information, but which are far better suited to be compared with the empirical knowledge of the human brain.