Unsupervised Cell Nuclei Segmentation Based on Morphology and Adaptive Active Contour Modelling

Ziming Zeng, Harry Strange, Chunlei Han, Reyer Zwiggelaar

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Abstract

This paper proposes an unsupervised segmentation scheme for cell nuclei. This method computes the cell nuclei by using adaptive active contour modelling which is driven by the morphology method. Firstly, morphology is used to enhance the gray level values of cell nuclei. Then binary cell nuclei is acquired by using an image subtraction technique. Secondly, the masks of cell nuclei are utilized to drive an adaptive region-based active contour modelling to segment the cell nuclei. In addition, an artificial interactive segmentation method is used to generate the ground truth of cell nuclei. This method can have an interest in several applications covering different kinds of cell nuclei. Experiments show that the proposed method can generate accurate segmentation results compared with alternative approaches.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationImage Analysis and Recognition - 10th International Conference, ICIAR 2013, Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication10th International Conference, ICIAR, Aveiro, Portugal, June 26-28, 2013, Proceedings
EditorsMohamed Kamel, Aurélio Campilho
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages605-612
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-642-39094-4
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-39093-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 06 Jun 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7950 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Keywords

  • Adaptive Active Contour Modelling
  • Cell Nuclei
  • Ground Truth
  • Morphology
  • Segmentation

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