Segmentation of cell nuclei in tissue by combining seeded watersheds with gradient information

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2749, Issue , 2003, Pages 408-414

  Wählby, Carolina ^a   Bengtsson, Ewert ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TISSUE;

CELL NUCLEUS; GRADIENT INFORMATIONS; GRADIENT MAGNITUDE; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING; ORIGINAL IMAGES; REGION-BASED SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTED OBJECTS; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 35248868928     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45103-x_55     Document Type: Article

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