Segmenting overlapping cell nuclei in digital histopathology images

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 5445-5448

  Shu, Jie ^a   Fu, Hao ^a   Qiu, Guoping ^a   Kaye, Philip ^a   Ilyas, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC QUANTIFICATION; FOREGROUND REGIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING; NUCLEI SEGMENTATION; OVERLAPPING CELLS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TISSUE MICROARRAYS; WHOLE SLIDE IMAGES;

CYTOLOGY; PIXELS;

DIAGNOSIS;

PROTEIN P53; TP53 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR MARKER;

CELL NUCLEUS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

CELL NUCLEUS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 84886532274     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610781     Document Type: Conference Paper

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