Segmenting cervical epithelial nuclei from confocal images using Gaussian Markov random fields

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1069-1072

  Luck, Brette L ^a   Bovik, Alan C ^a   Richards Kortum, Rebecca R ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; TISSUE; TUMORS;

CERVICAL CANCER; CONFOCAL IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0344703674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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