Segmentation of nuclei in cancer tissue images: Contrasting active contours with morphology-based approach

8th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, BIBE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cataldo, Santa Di ^a   Ficarra, Elisa ^a   Acquaviva, Andrea ^b   Macii, Enrico ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; BIO-MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; CANCER TISSUES; PROTEIN ACTIVITY; TISSUE LAYERS;

AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 67549144549     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2008.4696793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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