Watershed-based segmentation of cell nuclei boundaries in Pap smear images

Proceedings of the IEEE/EMBS Region 8 International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, ITAB

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED METHODS; CELL NUCLEUS; DATA SETS; DEFORMABLE MODELS; FALSE POSITIVE; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; MORPHOLOGICAL GRADIENT; MORPHOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION; PAP SMEAR; SALIENT FEATURES; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; WATERSHED TRANSFORM;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; CYTOLOGY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LANDFORMS; WATERSHEDS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79951617741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687745     Document Type: Conference Paper

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