Robust nuclei segmentation in cyto-histopathological images using statistical level set approach with topology preserving constraint.
Shaghayegh TaheriThomas FevensTien D. BuiPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2017)
Keyphrases
- topology preserving
- level set method
- cell nuclei
- level set
- histopathological images
- image segmentation
- automated analysis
- self organizing maps
- segmentation method
- active contours
- low contrast
- shape prior
- binary images
- microscopy images
- competitive learning
- quantitative analysis
- automated detection
- segmentation algorithm
- energy function
- medical images
- image analysis
- energy functional
- deformable models
- cancer diagnosis
- quantitative evaluation
- partial differential equations
- k means
- character recognition
- data sets
- neural network