Segmenting cell images: A deterministic relaxation approach

Chee Sun Won, Jae Yeal Nam, Yoonsik Choe

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Abstract

Automatic segmentation of digital cell images into four regions, namely nucleus, cytoplasm, red blood cell (rbc), and background, is an important step for pathological measurements. Using an adaptive thresholding of the histogram, the cell image can be roughly segmented into three regions: nucleus, a mixture of cytoplasm and rbc's, and background. This segmentation is served as an initial segmentation for our iterative image segmentation algorithm. Specifically, MAP (maximum a posteriori) criterion formulated by the Bayesian framework with the original image data and local variance image field (LVIF) is used to update the class labels iteratively by a deterministic relaxation algorithm. Finally, we draw a line to separate the touching rbc from the cytoplasm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsMilan Sonka, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Jan Kybic
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages281-291
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)3540226753, 9783540226758
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3117
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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