Overlapping nuclei segmentation using direction-based flow tracking

IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 387-394

  Surut, Yunyong ^a   Phukpattaranont, Pornchai ^a  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Marker controlled watershed; Overlapping nuclei; Quantification accuracy; Watershed algorithm

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; WATERSHEDS;

MARKER-CONTROLLED WATERSHEDS; OBJECTS SEGMENTATION; OVERLAPPING NUCLEI; OVERLAPPING NUCLEI SEGMENTATIONS; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; QUANTIFICATION ACCURACY; TOTAL PERFORMANCE; WATER-SHED ALGORITHM;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84879264029     PISSN: 19314973     EISSN: 19314981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tee.21870     Document Type: Article

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