TY - GEN
T1 - Nerve cell segmentation via multi-scale gradient watershed hierarchies
AU - Wang, Yi Ying
AU - Sun, Yung Nien
AU - Lin, Chou Ching K.
AU - Ju, Ming Shaung
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Automated segmentation of nerve cell in microscopic image is an important task in neural researches. We proposed a multi-scale watershed-based approach to cope with this microscopic image analysis problem. There are three stages in the proposed segmentation algorithm: (1) a multi-scale watershed scheme is used to estimate an initial location of nerve cell nuclei; (2) we can identity nerve cell nuclei according to properties of nerve cell and watershed results in different scale; (3) Once the possible nerve cell is identified as a true one, a fuzzy rule based Active Contour Model (ACM) is applied to find the optimal outer contour. Our approach can segment nerve cell automatically and accurately. The cell detection rates in the experiments are above 95%. Moreover, the fuzzy rule based ACM provides flexible alternative to handle cell contour detection.
AB - Automated segmentation of nerve cell in microscopic image is an important task in neural researches. We proposed a multi-scale watershed-based approach to cope with this microscopic image analysis problem. There are three stages in the proposed segmentation algorithm: (1) a multi-scale watershed scheme is used to estimate an initial location of nerve cell nuclei; (2) we can identity nerve cell nuclei according to properties of nerve cell and watershed results in different scale; (3) Once the possible nerve cell is identified as a true one, a fuzzy rule based Active Contour Model (ACM) is applied to find the optimal outer contour. Our approach can segment nerve cell automatically and accurately. The cell detection rates in the experiments are above 95%. Moreover, the fuzzy rule based ACM provides flexible alternative to handle cell contour detection.
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U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260159
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260159
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 17946621
AN - SCOPUS:34047146013
SN - 1424400325
SN - 9781424400324
T3 - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
SP - 4310
EP - 4313
BT - 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06
T2 - 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06
Y2 - 30 August 2006 through 3 September 2006
ER -