A new strategy to obtain robust markers for blood vessels segmentation by using the watersheds method

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 665-686

  Rodríguez, Roberto ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Alarcón, Teresa E ^a   Pacheco, Oriana ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIBERNÉTICA   (Cuba)

^b Digital Signal Processing Group (ICIMAF)   (Cuba)

^c Advisory Council of International Biographical Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d Cuban Association for Pattern Recognition (ACRP)   (Cuba)

^e Bio Engineering Cuban Association   (Cuba)

^f Cuban Association of Mathematics and Computation (SCMC)   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis process; Gauss filter; Image segmentation; Markers; Morphological filter; Watersheds method

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS PROCESS; GAUSS FILTER; MARKERS; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTER; WATERSHEDS METHOD;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; TUMORS; WATERSHEDS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ERROR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATERSHED;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROCIRCULATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC;

EID: 23944502816     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2004.06.003     Document Type: Article

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