Segmentation of confocal microscope images of cell nuclei in thick tissue sections

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 212-226

  Ortiz De Solórzano, Carlos ^a,c   Garcia Rodriguez E ^a   Jones, A ^a   Pinkel, D ^b   Gray, J W ^b   Sudar, D ^a   Lockett, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Image analysis; Image segmentation; Three dimensional analysis

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE IMAGES; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; IMAGES SEGMENTATIONS; INTACT CELLS; THICK-TISSUE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE SECTIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0032966937     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1999.00463.x     Document Type: Article

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