Segmentation of overlapping nuclei in lung epithelial biopsy sections

This thesis describes the development of an automated image segmentation system for resolving overlapping cell nuclei in crowded scenes such as tissue biopsy section images. The system uses a succession of imaging algorithms that combine to double the number of extracted nuclei from lung epitheli...

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Main Author: Kemp, Roger
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13095