Segmentation of anti-nuclear antibody images based on the watershed approach

Proceedings of the 2010 5th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1695-1700

  Cheng, Chung Chuan ^a   Taur, Jin Shiuh ^a   Hsieh, Tsu Yi ^b   Tao, Chin Wang ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies; HEp 2 cell; Image segmentation; Medical image processing

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODIES; FLUORESCENCE PATTERNS; HEP-2 CELL; IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; PREPROCESSING SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; WATER-SHED ALGORITHM;

ANTIGENS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; LANDFORMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; WATERSHEDS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77956026985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIEA.2010.5515233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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