An Efficient Technique for Nuclei Segmentation Based on Ellipse Descriptor Analysis and Improved Seed Detection Algorithm

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1729-1741

  Xu, Hongming ^a   Lu, Cheng ^b   Mandal, Mrinal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ellipse descriptor; histopathological images; nuclei segmentation; seed detection; watershed algorithm

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL DETECTION; WATERSHEDS;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD TECHNIQUE; DESCRIPTORS; DETECTION ALGORITHM; ELLIPTICAL SHAPES; HISTOPATHOLOGICAL IMAGES; NUCLEI DETECTIONS; NUCLEI SEGMENTATION; WATER-SHED ALGORITHM;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CELL NUCLEUS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; PLANT SEED; SKIN; WATERSHED; ALGORITHM; CYTOCHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; CELL NUCLEUS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN;

EID: 84916213634     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: 21682208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2013.2297030     Document Type: Article

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