Improvement of contrast enhancement technique for cervical cell of pap smear images by reducing the effect of unwanted background information

2006 International Conference on Computing and Informatics, ICOCI '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Isa, Nor Ashidi Mat ^a   Mustafa, Nazahah ^a   Zamli, Kamal Zuhairi ^a   Mashor, Mohd Yusoff ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND INFORMATION; CERVICAL CANCERS; CERVICAL CELLS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; PAP SMEAR; SCREENING METHODS; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 71249141168     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICOCI.2006.5276546     Document Type: Conference Paper

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