Extended morphological processing: A practical method for automatic spot detection of biological markers from microscopic images

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kimori, Yoshitaka ^a,b,c   Baba, Norio ^d   Morone, Nobuhiro ^b,e  

^a Japan Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY DIRECTION; BETTER PERFORMANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING; MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING; STRUCTURING ELEMENT; TOP-HAT TRANSFORMATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRACTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77955369022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-373     Document Type: Article

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