Automatic white blood cell segmentation using stepwise merging rules and gradient vector flow snake

Micron

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 695-705

  Ko, Byoung Chul ^a   Gim, Ja Won ^a   Nam, Jae Yeal ^a  

^a Keimyung University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Boundary removal rules; GVF snake; Mean shift clustering; Probability map; Stepwise merging rules; White blood cell

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY REMOVAL RULES; GVF SNAKE; MEAN SHIFT; PROBABILITY MAPS; STEPWISE MERGING RULES; WHITE BLOOD CELL;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; MERGING; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEUKOCYTE; METHODOLOGY; STAINING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; CELL NUCLEUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOCYTES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 79957634923     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2011.03.009     Document Type: Article

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