Microscopic cell segmentation and dead cell detection based on CFSE and PI images by using distance and watershed transforms

DICTA 2009 - Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 32-39

  Cheng, Eric Dahai ^a   Challa, Subhash ^a   Chakravorty, Rajib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CFSE image; Distance transform; PI image, cell segmentation; Watershed transform

Indexed keywords

CELL DENSITY; CELL DETECTION; CELL SEGMENTATION; DEAD CELLS; FALSE DETECTIONS; IMAGE DISTANCE; MICROSCOPIC IMAGE; MICROSCOPY IMAGES; MISS DETECTION; WATERSHED TRANSFORM;

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; LANDFORMS; WATERSHEDS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77950362626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DICTA.2009.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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