1. Automatic segmentation of cells from microscopic imagery using ellipse detection.
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Kharma, N., Moghnieh, H., Yao, J., Guo, Y. P., Abu-Baker, A., Laganiere, J., Rouleau, G., and Cheriet, M.
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MEDICAL microscopy ,CELL differentiation ,BIOSENSORS ,DETECTORS ,IMAGE processing ,GENETIC algorithms ,ITERATIVE methods (Mathematics) - Abstract
Cell image segmentation is a necessary first step of many automated biomedical image-processing procedures. There certainly has been much research in the area. To this, a new method has been added, which automatically extracts cells from microscopic imagery, and does so in two phases. Phase 1 uses iterated thresholding to identify and mark foreground objects or ‘blobs’ with an overall accuracy of >97%. Phase 2 of the method uses a novel genetic algorithms-based ellipse detection algorithm to identify cells, quickly and reliably. The mechanism, as a whole, has an accuracy rate >96% and takes <1 min (given our specific hardware configuration) to operate on a microscopic image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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