Iterative thresholding for segmentation of cells from noisy images

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 296-304

  Wu, Hai Shan ^a   Barba, J ^b   Gil, J ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell images; Cytological images; Image segmentation; Quantitative pathology

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS;

CELL IMAGES; CYTOLOGICAL IMAGE; IMAGES SEGMENTATIONS; ITERATIVE THRESHOLDING; LOCAL ACTIVITY; NOISY IMAGE; QUANTITATIVE PATHOLOGY; SYNTHESISED; THRESHOLDING ALGORITHMS; THRESHOLDING IMAGES;

CELLS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0034056850     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.2000.00653.x     Document Type: Article

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