Automatic clump splitting for cell quantification in microscopical images

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

Volumn 4756 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 763-772

  Díaz, Gloria ^a   Gonzalez, Fábio ^a   Romero, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Cell quantification; Clump splitting; Overlapping objects; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

CELL QUANTIFICATION; CLUMP SPLITTING; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OVERLAPPING OBJECTS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 38449091318     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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