Morphological Separation of Clustered Nuclei in Histological Images
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چکیده
Automated nuclear segmentation is essential in the analysis of most microscopy images. This paper presents a novel concavitybased 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.
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