Unsupervised segmentation and classification of cervical cell images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4151-4168

  Gençtav, Asl ^a   Aksoy, Selim ^a   Önder, Sevgen ^b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Automatic thresholding; Cell grading; Hierarchical clustering; Hierarchical segmentation; Multi scale segmentation; Optimal leaf ordering; Pap smear test; Ranking

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC THRESHOLDING; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; HIERARCHICAL SEGMENTATION; MULTISCALE SEGMENTATION; OPTIMAL LEAF ORDERING; PAP SMEAR; RANKING;

CELLS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTIMIZATION; SEPARATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 84864290039     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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