Unsupervised 2D gel electrophoresis image segmentation based on active contours

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 720-731

  Savelonas, Michalis A ^a   Mylona, Eleftheria A ^a   Maroulis, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

2D gel electrophoresis images; Active contours; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

2-D GEL ELECTROPHORESIS IMAGES; ACTIVE CONTOURS; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; ERROR-PRONE PROCESS; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS IMAGES; IMAGE ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; LEVEL SETS; PROTEIN SPOTS; SEGMENTATION QUALITY; SEGMENTATION SCHEME; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION;

ELECTROPHORESIS; GELS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 80052970544     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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