Adaptive watershed segmentation of binary particle image

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 326-330

  Sun, H Q ^a   Luo, Y J ^a  

^a DALIAN NAVAL ACADEMY   (China)

Author keywords

Mathematical morphology; Particle image; Watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; LOCAL MINIMUMS; OVER SEGMENTATION; PARTICLE IMAGES; PERFORMANCE; SPURIOUS MINIMA; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATERSHED;

EID: 59149104997     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2009.03125.x     Document Type: Article

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