A novel framework for white blood cell segmentation based on stepwise rules and morphological features

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7877, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gim, Ja Won ^a   Park, Junoh ^a   Lee, Ji Hyeon ^a   Ko, ByoungChul ^a   Nam, Jae Yeal ^a  

^a Keimyung University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Automatic cell segmentation; Boundary removal rules; Cytoplasm; GVF snake; Mean shift clustering; Probability map; White blood cell

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY REMOVAL RULES; CELL SEGMENTATION; CYTOPLASM; GVF SNAKE; MEAN SHIFT; PROBABILITY MAP; WHITE BLOOD CELL;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; CELLS; COMPUTER VISION; CYTOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MERGING; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79953137096     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.876435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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