Morphological Separation of Clustered Nuclei in Histological Images
| dc.contributor.author | Fouad, S | |
| dc.contributor.author | Landini, G | |
| dc.contributor.author | Randell, D | |
| dc.contributor.author | Galton, AP | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-29T09:19:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-06-30 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Automated nuclear segmentation is essential in the analysis of most microscopy images. This paper presents a novel concavity-based method for the separation of clusters of nuclei in binary images. A heuristic rule, based on object size, is used to infer the existence of merged regions. Concavity extrema detected along the merged-cluster boundary are used to guide the separation of overlapping regions. Inner split contours of multiple concavities along the nuclear boundary are estimated via a series of morphological procedures. The algorithm was evaluated on images of H400 cells in monolayer cultures and compares favourably with the state-of-art watershed method commonly used to separate overlapping nuclei. | en_GB |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The research reported in this paper was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK through funding under grant EP/M023869/1 “Novel context-based segmentation algorithms for intelligent microscopy” | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.citation | Image Analysis and Recognition - 13th International Conference, ICIAR 2016, in Memory of Mohamed Kamel, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, 13 - 15 July 2016. Proceedings edited by Aurélio Campilho and Fakhri Karray, pp. 599-607. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 9730 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/978-3-319-41501-7_67 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/22787 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
| dc.publisher | Springer Verlag | en_GB |
| dc.rights | © 2016 The Author(s). Open Access. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, a link is provided to the Creative Commons license and any changes made are indicated. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the work’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if such material is not included in the work’s Creative Commons license and the respective action is not permitted by statutory regulation, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to duplicate, adapt or reproduce the material. | en_GB |
| dc.subject | Histological images | en_GB |
| dc.subject | Nuclear segmentation | en_GB |
| dc.subject | Concavity analysis | en_GB |
| dc.subject | Mathematical morphology | en_GB |
| dc.title | Morphological Separation of Clustered Nuclei in Histological Images | en_GB |
| dc.type | Conference paper | en_GB |
| dc.date.available | 2016-07-29T09:19:58Z | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Campilho, A | en_GB |
| dc.contributor.editor | Karray, F | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0302-9743 | |
| dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from Springer Verlag via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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