Automatic segmentation of clustered breast cancer cells using watershed and concave vertex graph

2011 International Conference on Communications, Computing and Control Applications, CCCA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mouelhi, Aymen ^a   Sayadi, Mounir ^a,b   Fnaiech, Farhat ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b Département Génie Electrique et Informatique Industrielle   (France)

Author keywords

Active contours; Breast cancer; Chan Vese model; Graph theory; Image segmentation; Medical image analysis; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; AUTOMATIC METHOD; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER CELLS; BREAST TISSUES; CANCER CELLS; CANCER DISEASE; CELL CONTOURS; CHAN-VESE MODEL; DIJKSTRA ALGORITHMS; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; END POINTS; ENERGY FUNCTIONALS; GEOMETRIC ACTIVE CONTOURS; MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; OVER SEGMENTATION; POST PROCESSING; PRE-SEGMENTED IMAGES; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SHORTEST PATH; TOUCHING CELLS; VERTEX GRAPHS; WATER-SHED ALGORITHM; WATERSHED METHODS;

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; GRAPH THEORY; LANDFORMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; TISSUE; WATERSHEDS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 80054812697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCCA.2011.6031229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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