Automatic Nuclei Detection Based on Generalized Laplacian of Gaussian Filters

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 826-837

  Xu, Hongming ^a   Lu, Cheng ^b   Berendt, Richard ^a   Jha, Naresh ^a   Mandal, Mrinal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG) filter; mean shift algorithm; nuclei detection; thresholding

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS; AUTOMATIC TECHNIQUE; HISTOLOGICAL IMAGES; LAPLACIAN OF GAUSSIAN; LAPLACIAN OF GAUSSIAN FILTERS; MEAN SHIFT ALGORITHM; NUCLEI DETECTIONS; THRESHOLDING;

PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KERNEL METHOD; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEAR SIZE; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKIN; SKIN TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 85019223307     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: 21682208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2016.2544245     Document Type: Article

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