Segmenting clustered nuclei using H-minima transform-based marker extraction and contour parameterization

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 10 PART 2, 2010, Pages 2600-2604

  Jung, Chanho ^a   Kim, Changick ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cell image segmentation; Contour parameterization; H minima transform; Marker extraction; Watershed based segmentation

Indexed keywords

CELL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; CELL IMAGES; CONTOUR PARAMETERIZATION; DISTANCE MAP; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; EFFECTIVE ANALYSIS; EVALUATION FUNCTION; H-MINIMA TRANSFORM; MARKER EXTRACTION; OPTIMAL SEGMENTATION; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SEGMENTED REGIONS;

LANDFORMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; WATERSHEDS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN P53;

ARTICLE; BREAST CELL; CANCER INVASION; CELL NUCLEUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERFEROMETRY; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77956942046     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2060336     Document Type: Article

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