Nucleus and cytoplast contour detector of cervical smear image

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1441-1453

  Tsai, Meng Husiun ^a   Chan, Yung Kuan ^a   Lin, Zhe Zheng ^a   Yang Mao, Shys Fan ^b   Huang, Po Chi ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CENTRAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c TAICHUNG HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Cervical smear screening; Contour detection; Gaussian noise; Image segmentation; Salt and pepper noise

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SEPARATION; TUMORS;

CERVICAL CANCER; CERVICAL SMEAR SCREENING; CONTOUR DETECTION; PEPPER NOISE;

ONCOLOGY;

EID: 43449100314     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.02.024     Document Type: Article

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