Image processing for AFB segmentation in bacilloscopies of pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis.
Image segmentation applied to medical image analysis is still a critical and important task. Although there exist several segmentation algorithms that have been widely studied in literature, these are subject to segmentation problems such as over- and under-segmentation as well as non-closed edges....
Main Authors: | Jorge Luis Díaz-Huerta, Adriana Del Carmen Téllez-Anguiano, Miguelangel Fraga-Aguilar, José Antonio Gutiérrez-Gnecchi, Sergio Arellano-Calderón |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218861 |
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