The chord length transform and the segmentation of crossing fibres

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-53

  Sandau, K ^a   Ohser, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chord length; Distance transform; Morphological image processing; Segmentation; Star volume

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

CHORD LENGTHS; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; CROSSING FIBERS; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; IMAGES PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; SEGMENTATION; STAR VOLUME; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

BINARY IMAGES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FIBER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 33947392924     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.01748.x     Document Type: Article

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