White blood cell segmentation using morphological operators and scale-space analysis

Proceedings of SIBGRAPI 2007 - 20th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 294-301

  Dorini, Leyza Baldo ^a   Minetto, Rodrigo ^a   Leite, Neucimar Jerônimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CYTOLOGY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATED METHODS; CELL SEGMENTATIONS; CHALLENGING PROBLEMS; COMPLEX NATURES; FUTURE WORKS; MANUAL METHODS; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATORS; NOVEL METHODS; SCALE SPACES; SEGMENTATION ACCURACIES; VIDEO MICROSCOPIES; WHITE BLOOD CELLS;

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EID: 47749138869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIBGRAPI.2007.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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