Semiautomatic white blood cell segmentation based on multiscale analysis

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 250-256

  Dorini, Leyza Baldo ^a   Minetto, Rodrigo ^a   Leite, Neucimar Jeron̂imo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Mathematical morphology; Medical image analysis; White blood cell image segmentation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; GRANULOMETRIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE PREPROCESSING; IMAGE SIMPLIFICATION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS; WATERSHED TRANSFORM; WHITE BLOOD CELL IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84879539282     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2207398     Document Type: Article

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