Unsupervised segmentation method for cuboidal cell nuclei in histological prostate images based on minimum cross entropy.
Domingos Lucas Latorre de OliveiraMarcelo Zanchetta do NascimentoLeandro Alves NevesMoacir Fernandes de GodoyPedro Francisco Ferraz de ArrudaDalisio de Santi NetoPublished in: Expert Syst. Appl. (2013)
Keyphrases
- segmentation method
- cell nuclei
- watershed transform
- segmentation algorithm
- automated analysis
- region growing
- segmented images
- mathematical morphology
- automated segmentation
- active contours
- watershed segmentation
- quantitative analysis
- image segmentation
- object segmentation
- automated detection
- microscopy images
- energy function
- region merging
- superpixels
- segmentation result
- automatic segmentation
- low contrast
- prostate cancer
- image data
- quantitative evaluation
- shape prior
- conditional random fields
- binary images
- nonrigid registration
- graph cuts
- input image
- ground truth