Applying watershed algorithms to the segmentation of clustered nuclei

Cytometry

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 289-297

  Malpica, Norberto ^a   De Solórzano, Carlos Ortiz ^a,c   Vaquero, Juan José ^a,d   Santos, Andrés ^a   Vallcorba, Isabel ^b   García Sagredo, José Miguel ^b   Del Pozo, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Automation; Cluster division; Digital image analysis; FISH; Fluorescence microscopy; Interphase nuclei; Mathematical morphology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ALGORITHMS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL NUCLEUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 1842372117     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19970801)28:4<289::AID-CYTO3>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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