Automated cell colony counting and analysis using the circular Hough image transform algorithm (CHiTA)

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 5991-6008

  Bewes, J M ^a,b   Suchowerska, N ^a,b   McKenzie, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CELL CULTURE; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN SITU PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

AUTOMATED APPROACHES; AUTOMATED CELLS; AUTOMATED SYSTEMS; CELL COLONIES; CELL LINES; CELL SIZES; CLONOGENIC ASSAYS; COLONY COUNTS; COMPUTING SPEEDS; CYTOTOXIC EFFECTS; GAUSSIAN SMOOTHING; IMAGE CAPTURES; IMAGE TRANSFORMS; IN-SITU; INTENSITY GRADIENTS; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR DISTANCES; PRE-PROCESSING; QUALITATIVE INFORMATIONS; RADIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; RAW IMAGES; SPECIALIZED HARDWARES; STANDARD DESKTOPS;

EDGE DETECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CIRCULAR HOUGH IMAGE TRANSFORM ALGORITHM; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; CYTOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LINE, TUMOR; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58149260413     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/21/007     Document Type: Article

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