Gradient convergence filters and a phase congruency approach for in vivo cell nuclei detection

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 623-638

  Esteves, Tiago ^a   Quelhas, Pedro ^a   Mendonça, Ana Maria ^a,b   Campilho, Aurélio ^a,b  

^a INEB INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA BIOMÉDICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cell segmentation; Convergence filters; Local image filtering; Shape estimation

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; CELL ANALYSIS; CELL IMAGES; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL REGULATION; CELL SEGMENTATION; CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; DETECTION ACCURACY; ILLUMINATION VARIATION; IMAGE FILTERING; IN-VIVO; LOCAL CONVERGENCE; PHASE CONGRUENCY; PHASE INFORMATION; PLANT CELLS; PLANT ROOTS; QUALITY VARIATION; SHAPE ADAPTATION; SHAPE ESTIMATION; SHAPE REGULARIZATION; VISUAL INSPECTION;

CYTOLOGY; ESTIMATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFORMATION USE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CELLS;

EID: 84865374061     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-012-0407-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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