Combining shape, texture and intensity features for cell nuclei extraction in Pap smear images

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 838-853

  Plissiti, Marina E ^a   Nikou, Christophoros ^a   Charchanti, Antonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cell nuclei segmentation; Clustering; Feature selection; Morphological reconstruction; Pap smear images; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEI SEGMENTATION; CLUSTERING; FEATURE SELECTION; MORPHOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION; PAP SMEAR;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LANDFORMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXTURES; WATERSHEDS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79851507983     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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