Robust cell nuclei segmentation using statistical modelling

Bioimaging

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 79-91

  Mouroutis, Theodoros ^a   Roberts, Stephen J ^a   Bharath, Anil A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell nuclei segmentation; Hough transform; Image processing; Maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATION; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LARYNX; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031832913     PISSN: 09669051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1361-6374(199806)6:2<79::aid-bio3>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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