Robust contour reconstruction of red blood cells and parasites in the automated identification of the stages of malarial infection

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 461-469

  Kumarasamy, Saravana Kumar ^a   Ong, S H ^b   Tan, K S W ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Gestalt laws; Malaria; Segmentation; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION; BOUNDARY EDGES; CELL SEGMENTATION; CLOSED CONTOURS; CONTOUR RECONSTRUCTION; DIGITAL IMAGE; EDGE FILTERS; GESTALT LAW; IMAGE LUMINANCE; MALARIA; MALARIA PARASITE; NOVEL METHODS; PARASITE-; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RADIAL BASIS; RED BLOOD CELL; RULE BASED ALGORITHMS; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SUPPORT VECTOR;

CELLS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

BLOOD;

EID: 79958861397     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-010-0284-x     Document Type: Article

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