Fuzzy-based analysis of microscopic color cervical pap smear images: Nuclei detection

International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 187-206

  Sobrevilla, Pilar ^a   Montseny, Eduard ^a   Vaschetto, Fabio ^b   Lerma, Enrique ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

cell contour; color image analysis; computer vision; fuzzy characterization; Pap Smear screening

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SYSTEMS; CELL CONTOURS; CELL FEATURES; CERVICAL CANCERS; COLOR IMAGE ANALYSIS; COLOR INFORMATION; DETECTION ALGORITHM; FALSE NEGATIVES; FUZZY CHARACTERIZATIONS; HUMAN ERRORS; LARGE PARTS; MALIGNANT CELLS; MALIGNANT LESION; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; MORTALITY RATE; PAP SMEAR; PRECURSOR LESIONS; SCREENING PROCESS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS;

AUTOMATION; COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER VISION; CYTOLOGY; ERRORS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 77956017661     PISSN: 14690268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1469026810002860     Document Type: Conference Paper

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