A novel white blood cell segmentation scheme using scale-space filtering and watershed clustering

International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2003, Pages 2820-2825

  Jiang, Kan ^a   Liao, Qing Min ^a   Dai, Sheng Yang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Feature space clustering; Scale space filtering; Watershed; WBC segmentation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CELLS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

FEATURE SPACE CLUSTERING; SCALE-SPACE FILTERING; WATERSHED TRANSFORMS; WHITE BLOOD CELL (WBC) SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 1542315228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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