Leukocyte segmentation and SVM classification in blood smear images

Machine Graphics and Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 187-200

  Ramoser, H ^a  

^a Advanced Computer Vision GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cytometry; Feature extraction; Multiclass SVM

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

BLOOD SMEAR; CELL TYPES; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACIES; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; CYTOMETRY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEUKOCYTE DETECTION; MULTICLASS SVM; NUCLEUS SEGMENTATION; PAIRWISE COUPLING; SHAPE FEATURES; SVM CLASSIFICATION;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 49549090680     PISSN: 12300535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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