High dynamic range microscopy for cytopathological cancer diagnosis

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 170-184

  Bell, André A ^a   Brauers, Johannes ^a   Kaftan, Jens N ^a   Meyer Ebrecht, Dietrich ^a   Böcking, Alfred ^b   Aach, Til ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomedical image processing; Cancer; Color; Imaging; Microscopy

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SILVER;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; BRIGHT FIELDS; CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CAUSES OF DEATHS; CELL IMAGES; CELL-BASED; COLOR SEPARATIONS; COMPUTER-ASSISTED ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC RANGES; EARLY CANCER DETECTIONS; HDR MICROSCOPIES; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGES; HIGH-DYNAMIC-RANGE IMAGES; HIGHLY SENSITIVES; IMAGING; LIGHT MICROSCOPIES; LOW CONTRASTS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY IMAGES; SUB-CELLULAR;

COLOR;

EID: 62349084218     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2008.2011101     Document Type: Article

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