Touching cells splitting by using concave points and ellipse fitting

Proceedings - Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 271-278

  Bai, Xiangzhi ^a,b   Sun, Changming ^b   Zhou, Fugen ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSE FITTING; PRE-PROCESSING; SINGLE CELLS; SPLITTING ALGORITHMS; TOUCHING CELLS;

CELL MEMBRANES; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 67549091651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DICTA.2008.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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