Boundary-precise segmentation of nucleus and plasma of leukocytes

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6914, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Zerfaß, Thorsten ^a   Rehn, Thomas ^a   Wittenberg, Thomas ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer assisted microscopy; Hematology; Image processing; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; PLASMA (HUMAN);

LED ILLUMINATION; LEUKOCYTES; SEGMENTATION QUALITY;

CELL CULTURE;

EID: 43449138499     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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