Segmentation of leukocytes and erythrocytes in blood smear images

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3075-3078

  Bergen, Tobias ^a   Steckhan, Dirk ^a   Wittenberg, Thomas ^a   Zerfaß, Thorsten ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

CELL CONTOURS; COMPUTER ASSISTED; DIFFERENTIAL BLOOD COUNT; LEVEL SET APPROACH; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MICROSCOPY SYSTEMS; PLASMA REGION; RED BLOOD CELL;

BLOOD;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE MARROW; CELL NUCLEUS; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE MARROW; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 61849088013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649853     Document Type: Conference Paper

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