Cytoplasm and nucleus segmentation in cervical smear images using Radiating GVF Snake

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1255-1264

  Li, Kuan ^a,b   Lu, Zhi ^b   Liu, Wenyin ^b   Yin, Jianping ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Active contour; Boundary extraction; Cervical cell; Radiating gradient vector flow

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; BOUNDARY EXTRACTION; CERVICAL CELLS; COMPUTATION METHODS; DATA SETS; EDGE MAP; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; IF THERE ARE; INITIAL CONTOUR; K-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; NUCLEUS SEGMENTATION;

CELLS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; CYTOLOGY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 83655201320     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2011.09.018     Document Type: Article

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