Segmentation of neuronal nuclei based on clump splitting and a two-step binarization of images

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 6521-6530

  LaTorre, A ^a   Alonso Nanclares, L ^a,b   Muelas, S ^c   Pena J M ^c   Defelipe, J ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^b Laboratorio Cajal de Circuitos Corticales   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Binarization; Clump splitting; Concavity analysis; Overlapping objects; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATIONS; CLUMP SPLITTING; CONCAVITY ANALYSIS; DIFFERENT LAYERS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; INDIVIDUAL OBJECTS; OVERLAPPING OBJECTS; TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES;

ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84879817956     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.06.010     Document Type: Article

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