The Trade-Offs between Manual and Computer-based Stereology/Classification: Application to Estimates of Volume Fraction

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 770-773

  Markowitz, Z ^a   Loew, M H ^a  

^a George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Classification; Image processing; Mensuration; Stereology; Variance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE; VOLUME FRACTION;

COARSE POINT COUNTING; STEREOLOGY;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 1542332543     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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