Automatic segmentation of zona pellucida in HMC images of human embryos

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 518-521

  Karlsson, Adam ^a   Overgaard, Niels Chr ^a   Heyden, Anders ^a  

^a MALMÖ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOFFMAN MODULATION CONTRAST (HMC) MICROSCOPY; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS; PHASE GRADIENTS; ZONA PELLUCIDA THICKNESS VARIATION (ZPTV);

FILTRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VIBRATION CONTROL; VIDEO CAMERAS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 10044221988     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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