Geometric separation of partially overlapping nonrigid objects applied to automatic chromosome classification

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1212-1222

  Agam, Gady ^a   Dinstein, Its'hak ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biology computing; Chromosome analysis; Computational geometry; Image segmentation; Object recognition; Shape decomposition

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

BIOLOGY COMPUTING; SHAPE DECOMPOSITION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031275835     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.632981     Document Type: Article

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