A framework for white blood cell segmentation in microscopic blood images using digital image processing

Biological Procedures Online

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 196-206

  Sadeghian, Farnoosh ^a   Seman, Zainina ^a   Ramli, Abdul Rahman ^a   Abdul Kahar, Badrul Hisham ^b   Saripan, M Iqbal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b Section 10   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Active contours; Snake algorithm; White blood cell segmentation; Zack thresholding

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CYTOPLASM; DIGITAL IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77649272423     PISSN: 14809222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12575-009-9011-2     Document Type: Article

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