Automated analysis of nerve-cell images using active contour models

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 353-368

  Fok, Ying Lnn ^a   Chan, Joseph C K ^b   Chin, Roland T ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS; NERVE CELL IMAGES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0030169990     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.500144     Document Type: Article

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