Automatic segmentation and disentangling of chromosomes in Q-band prometaphase images

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 575-581

  Grisan, Enrico ^a   Poletti, Enea ^a   Ruggeri, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adjacent chromosomes; Chromosome analysis; Image segmentation; Karyotyping; Overlapping chromosomes

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT CHROMOSOMES; AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS; AUTOMATIC PROCEDURES; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; DATA SETS; IMAGE INFORMATION; KARYOTYPE ANALYSIS; KARYOTYPING; OVERLAPPING CHROMOSOMES; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; THRESHOLDING;

CYTOLOGY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CHROMOSOMES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; IMAGE PROCESSING; KARYOTYPING; METHODOLOGY; PROMETAPHASE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KARYOTYPING; PROMETAPHASE;

EID: 67749104172     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2014464     Document Type: Conference Paper

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