A template matching algorithm for sperm tracking and classification

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 639-651

  Nafisi, Vahid Reza ^a   Moradi, Mohammad Hasan ^a   Nasr Esfahani, Mohammad Hosain ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Computer assisted sperm analysis (CASA); Enhancement; Tracking; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; QUALITY CONTROL; TEMPLATE MATCHING; TRACKING (POSITION);

ANALYSIS SYSTEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED; COMPUTER-ASSISTED SPERM ANALYSE; CONDITION; ENHANCEMENT; SPERM TRACKING; TEMPLATE-MATCHING ALGORITHMS; TRACKING; TRACKING ALGORITHM; WAVELETS TRANSFORM;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM;

EID: 23744502966     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 09673334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/26/5/006     Document Type: Article

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