Automating porosity features extraction from second harmonic generation images of cervical tissue

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, SIP 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 129-132

  Yousefi, Siamak ^a   Kim, Boram ^a   Kehtarnavaz, Nasser ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic feature extraction; image processing; Imaging of pregnancy stages; second harmonic generation imaging

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; AUTOMATED IMAGE PROCESSING; AUTOMATIC FEATURE EXTRACTION; CERVICAL TISSUES; FEATURES EXTRACTION; INTENSITY ILLUMINATION; INTERACTIVE METHODS; PARTICLE ANALYSIS; PORE AREAS; PORE DENSITIES; PRETERM BIRTH; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION IMAGING; THRESHOLDING; WHOLE PROCESS; WIENER FILTERING;

AUTOMATION; COLLAGEN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OBSTETRICS; TISSUE;

POROSITY;

EID: 84863042316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2316/P.2011.759-041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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