A new method for segmentation of colour images applied to immunohistochemically stained cell nuclei

Analytical Cellular Pathology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 145-156

  Ranefall, Petter ^a,b   Egevad, Lars ^a   Nordin, Bo ^a   Bengtsson, Ewert ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Centre for Image Analysis   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Automated cell counting; Colour image segmentation; Immunohistochemical staining; Pixelwise classification; Relaxation; Watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL COUNT; CELL LABELING; CELL NUCLEUS; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031455787     PISSN: 09218912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/1997/304073     Document Type: Article

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