Genetic programming based image segmentation with applications to biomedical object detection

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1123-1130

  Singh, Tarundeep ^a   Kharma, Nawwaf ^a   Daoud, Mohmmad ^b   Ward, Rabab ^c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genetic programming; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL IMAGE DATABASE; BIOMEDICAL OBJECTS; CELL SEGMENTATION; GENIE PRO; IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; LINEAR SEQUENCE;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATLAB; OBJECT RECOGNITION; TESTBEDS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 72749119440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1569901.1570052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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