Influence of boundary effects on minimum spanning tree features: A computer simulation

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 225-232

  Meijer, Gerrit A ^a   Van Diest, Paul J ^a   Baak, Jan P A ^a   Brinkhuis, Mariël ^a   Beentjes, Mathijs ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

boundary effects; computer assisted image processing; minimum spanning tree; syntactic structure analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029980151     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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