Effective segmentation and classification for HCC biopsy images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1550-1563

  Huang, Po Whei ^a   Lai, Yan Hao ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision graph; Feature selection; HCC biopsy image; k nearest neighbor; Morphological grayscale reconstruction; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

DECISION-GRAPH; GRAPH FEATURES; GRAYSCALE RECONSTRUCTION; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS;

CLASSIFIERS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; REPAIR; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

BIOPSY;

EID: 74449086090     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.10.014     Document Type: Article

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