Title : 
Computer Analysis of Chromosome Patterns: Feature Encoding for Flexible Decision Making
         
        
            Author : 
Klinger, Allen ; Kochman, Arnold ; Alexandridis, Nikitas
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
IEEE
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Experimental pattern recognition techniques for processing chromosome slides with a computer are described. The purpose of the computer program is twofold: to illuminate the basic mechanisms by which a human recognizes an object, such as a chromosome, and distinguishes it from other entities; and the employment of these mechanisms is an automatic and precise extraction of chromosome features.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Feature extraction, figure properties, hierarchial decisions, integral projections, pattern recognition, picture processing.; Biological cells; Data mining; Decision making; Decision trees; Encoding; Feature extraction; Humans; Pattern analysis; Pattern recognition; US Government; Feature extraction, figure properties, hierarchial decisions, integral projections, pattern recognition, picture processing.;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Computers, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/T-C.1971.223397