Segmentation of complex cell clusters in microscopic images: Application to bone marrow samples

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 24-31

  Nilsson, Björn ^a   Heyden, Anders ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bone marrow analysis; Combinatorial optimization; Digital image analysis; Image segmentation; Level set methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL SEPARATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEUKOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOCYTES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 20944440661     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20153     Document Type: Article

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