Segmentation of clustered nuclei with shape markers and marking function

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 741-748

  Cheng, Jierong ^a,b   Rajapakse, Jagath C ^a,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contours; Cell segmentation; Cellular imaging; Fluorescence microscopy; Watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CELL SEGMENTATION; CELLULAR IMAGES; CELLULAR IMAGING; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; SEGMENTATION ACCURACIES; SYNTHETIC IMAGES; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LANDFORMS; WATERSHEDS;

FLUORESCENCE;

MARKER;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SEGMENTATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CLUSTERED NUCLEI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; WATERSHED;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65349111374     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2008635     Document Type: Article

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