Clustering of approaches to microbiological image enhancement and classification based on Buser & Baroni-Urbani's algorithm and dragomirescu's homogeneity

Control Engineering and Applied Informatics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-29

  Petrişor, Alexandru Ionuţ ^a   Dragomirescu, Liviu ^b   Decho, Alan W ^c  

^a ION MINCU UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal; Homogeneity; Image classification; microscopy; Numerical taxonomy; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957813432     PISSN: 14548658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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