Trainable grey-level models for disentangling overlapping chromosomes

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1335-1349

  Charters, Graham C ^a   Graham, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosome analysis; Chromosome banding patterns; Classification; Overlapping chromosomes; Segmentation; Template matching; Trainable models

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOMES; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PATTERN MATCHING;

CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERNS; OVERLAPPING CHROMOSOMES; PROFILE DATA SET; TEMPLATE MATCHING; TRAINABLE MODELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0032651518     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(98)00171-X     Document Type: Article

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