Leukocyte segmentation in giemsa-stained image of peripheral blood smears based on active contour

2009 International Conference on Signal Processing Systems, ICSPS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 103-106

  Hamghalam, Mohammad ^a   Motameni, Mohammad ^b   Kelishomi, Aghil Esmaeili ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Active contour; Gradient vector flow histogram analysis; Leukocyte counting; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; EXTERNAL FORCE; EXTRACTING FEATURES; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; HISTOGRAM ANALYSIS; HUMAN BODIES; LEUCOCYTES; MICROSCOPIC IMAGE; OTSU METHOD; PERIPHERAL BLOOD; THRESHOLDING;

ABERRATIONS; BLOOD; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 70449678891     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSPS.2009.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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