Automatic segmentation of adherent biological cell boundaries and nuclei from brightfield microscopy images

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 607-621

  Ali, Rehan ^a   Gooding, Mark ^b   Szilágyi, Tünde ^c   Vojnovic, Borivoj ^d   Christlieb, Martin ^d   Brady, Michael ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mirada Medical Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell detection; Continuous intrinsic dimensionality; Level sets; Monogenic signal; Registration; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CELL DETECTION; CONTINUOUS INTRINSIC DIMENSIONALITY; LEVEL SET; MONOGENIC SIGNAL; REGISTRATION;

ALGORITHMS; CELL CULTURE; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84865380122     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-011-0337-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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