An image analysis method to measure cross-sectional tracheid dimensions on softwood increment cores

Wood and Fiber Science

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 200-212

  Moëll, Mattias ^a   Borgefors, Gunilla ^a  

^a Centre for Image Analysis   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Distance transform; Hough transform; Image analysis; Shape based thresholding; Skeletonization; Tracheid measurements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003258203     PISSN: 07356161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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