Estimation of tissue layer level by sequential morphological reconstruction

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 118-125

  Landini, G ^a   Othman, I E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distance transform; Image analysis; Morphology; Tissue architecture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

AUTOMATED METHODS; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; IMAGE-BASED; LABELINGS; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION; TISSUE ARCHITECTURE; TISSUE LAYERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; EPITHELIUM; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SECTION;

EID: 0037328026     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.2003.01113.x     Document Type: Article

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