Iterative tensor voting for perceptual grouping of ill-defined curvilinear structures

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1503-1513

  Loss, Leandro A ^a   Bebis, George ^b,c   Parvin, Bahram ^a,d  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Reno   (United States)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Adherens junctions; curvilinear structures; iterative tensor voting (ITV); perceptual grouping

Indexed keywords

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; CELL WALL STRUCTURE; CELL-CELL INTERACTION; CURVILINEAR STRUCTURES; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; HIGH PRECISION; ITERATIVE REFINEMENT; ITERATIVE TENSOR VOTING (ITV); MODE SHIFTING; PERCEPTUAL GROUPING; TENSOR VOTING;

FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; TISSUE;

TENSORS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; CELL WALL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79961192575     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2129526     Document Type: Article

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