Automatic segmentation of contours of corneal cells

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 243-258

  Sanchez Marin, Francisco J ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cell contours; Corneal endothelium; Image processing; Scale space filtering; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

SCALE-SPACE FILTERING;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FILTER; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; CELL SIZE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032838002     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4825(99)00010-4     Document Type: Article

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