Nerve cell segmentation via multi-scale gradient watershed hierarchies

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4310-4313

  Wang, Yi Ying ^a   Sun, Yung Nien ^a   Lin, Chou Ching K ^a   Ju, Ming Shaung ^b  

^a Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering ^*

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL (ACM); MICROSCOPIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTI-SCALE WATERSHED SCHEME;

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY RULES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

NEURONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; CELL NUCLEUS; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 34047146013     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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