A heuristic approach for the extraction of the region and boundary of mammalian cells in bio-electric images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6064, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tao, Li ^a   Asari, Vijayan K ^a  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioelectric image; Boundary tracking; Cell segmentation; Global adaptive thresholding; Image segmentation; Intensity stretch; Local contrast enhancement

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC IMAGE; BOUNDARY TRACKING; CELL SEGMENTATION; GLOBAL ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; INTENSITY STRETCH; LOCAL CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 33645686696     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.650207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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