Automated Arabidopsis plant root cell segmentation based on SVM classification and region merging

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 785-793

  Marcuzzo, Monica ^a   Quelhas, Pedro ^a   Campilho, Ana ^c   Maria Mendonça, Ana ^a,b   Campilho, Aurélio ^a,b  

^a INEB INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA BIOMÉDICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biological cells; Biomedical image processing

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PLANT; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BIOLOGICAL CELLS; BIOMEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; CELL DETECTION; CELL DIVISIONS; CELL MERGING; CELL SEGMENTATION; DESCRIPTOR; F-MEASURE; IN-VIVO IMAGING; INDIVIDUAL CELLS; OVER SEGMENTATION; PLANT CELLS; REGION-MERGING; RESEARCH TOOLS; SEGMENTED CELL; SVM CLASSIFICATION; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

CELL MEMBRANES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; MERGING; PLANTS (BOTANY); SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; WATERSHEDS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ACCURACY; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL SHAPE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOT MORPHOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CELL SHAPE; CELL WALL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT ROOTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 67849119398     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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