An efficient method based on watershed amd rule-based merging for segmentation of 3-D histo-pathological images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1449-1458

  Umesh Adiga, P S ^a,b   Chaudhuri, B B ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell; Histo pathological; Merging; Segmentation; Watershed

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TISSUE;

RULE-BASED MERGING TECHNIQUE; WATERSHED ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035400763     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(00)00076-5     Document Type: Article

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