Segmentation of endothelial cell boundaries of rabbit aortic images using a machine learning approach

International Journal of Biomedical Imaging

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Iftikhar, Saadia ^a   Bond, Andrew R ^a,b   Wagan, Asim I ^c   Weinberg, Peter D ^a   Bharath, Anil A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION METHOD; BLOOD FLOW; FEATURE SPACE; IMAGE DATA; MACHINE-LEARNING; NEIGHBOURHOOD; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES;

ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; PIXELS; VECTOR SPACES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 80052684665     PISSN: 16874188     EISSN: 16874196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2011/270247     Document Type: Article

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