A unified framework for automated 3-D segmentation of surface-stained living cells and a comprehensive segmentation evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 720-738

  Hodneland, Erlend ^a   Bukoreshtliev, Nickolay V ^a   Eichler, Tilo W ^a   Tai, Xue Cheng ^a   Gurke, Steffen ^a   Lundervold, Arvid ^a   Gerdes, Hans Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Automated whole cell segmentation; Level set; Mathematical morphology; Region differencing; Segmentation evaluation; Watershed

Indexed keywords

3-D SEGMENTATIONS; AUTOMATED APPROACHES; AUTOMATED WHOLE CELL SEGMENTATION; CELL SEGMENTATIONS; CELL TYPES; DATA SETS; FLUORESCENT IMAGES; LEVEL SET; LIVING CELLS; MANUAL SEGMENTATIONS; PRE-FILTERING; REGION DIFFERENCING; RIGOROUS EVALUATIONS; SEGMENTATION EVALUATION; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNIFIED FRAMEWORKS;

AUTOMATION; CELL MEMBRANES; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LANDFORMS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATERSHEDS;

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRAIN; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PC12 CELLS; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 65549116620     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2011522     Document Type: Article

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