Semi-automated segmentation of microbes in color images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5008, Issue , 2003, Pages 548-559

  Reddy, Chandari K ^a,c   Liu, Feng I ^a   Dazzo, Frank B ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Closing; Color dilation; Color distance; Color erosion; Color image segmentation; Error estimation; Microbes; Sampling; Spatial distance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

MICROBES;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0038057382     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.472024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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