A novel white blood cell segmentation scheme based on feature space clustering

Soft Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 12-19

  Jiang, Kan ^a   Liao, Qing Min ^a   Xiong, Yuan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Feature space clustering; Scale space filtering; Watershed; WBC segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744478890     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0458-z     Document Type: Article

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