Segmentation of transitional cell carcinoma nuclei by nonsupervised thresholding in different color spaces

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 271-278

  Pavlopoulos, Petros M ^a,d   Zimeras, Stylianos ^b   Kavantzas, Nikolaos ^c   Korkolopoulou, Penelope ^c   Agapitos, Emmanuel ^c   Patsouris, Efstratios ^c  

^a First Social Security Hospital   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carcinoma, transitional cell; Color thresholding, nuclear segmentation; Otsu method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CELL NUCLEUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34548150643     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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