An efficient technique for white blood cells nuclei automatic segmentation

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 220-225

  Mohamed, Mostafa ^a   Far, Behrouz ^a   Guaily, Amr ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Blood cell; Code; Dataset; Leucocyte; MATLAB; Segmentation; WBC; white blood cells

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CELLS; CODE; DATA SETS; LEUCOCYTE; WBC; WHITE BLOOD CELLS;

CELLS; CYBERNETICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATLAB;

BLOOD;

EID: 84872396536     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2012.6377703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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