Robust Extraction of Low Contrast Edges Using Clustering-Based Segmentation and Refinement.
George C. LaiRui J. P. de FigueiredoPublished in: ICIP (2) (1999)
Keyphrases
- low contrast
- accurate segmentation
- image gradient
- fully automatic
- intensity variations
- cell segmentation
- phase contrast
- cell nuclei
- high contrast
- gray value
- background noise
- blood vessels
- watershed transform
- imaging modalities
- high noise
- prior shape knowledge
- segmentation algorithm
- speckle noise
- contrast enhancement
- image segmentation
- high quality
- image analysis
- level set
- segmentation method
- region growing
- automatic segmentation
- gray level
- medical imaging
- contour detection
- edge detector
- edge detection
- segmentation accuracy
- active contours
- watershed segmentation
- input image
- microscope images
- multiscale