Title :
Segmentation of chromosome images
Author :
Katz, S.W. ; Brink, A.D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Appl. Math., Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Abstract :
In this study, the segmentation of chromosome images is examined. These banded chromosome arms belong to mosquitoes of the anopheles gambiae complex and are stained and mounted on slides. Spurious breaks in the chromosome arms due to the banded characteristic of the arms, detection of objects which are actually made up of noisy segments of fusion of two or more arms during segmentation due to close proximity of the arms to each other are some of the problems that are encountered during segmentation
Keywords :
cellular biophysics; image segmentation; medical image processing; anopheles gambiae complex; banded chromosome arms; chromosome images; image segmentation; mosquitoes; noisy segments; Arm; Background noise; Biological cells; Entropy; Image recognition; Image segmentation; Mathematics; Neural networks; Object detection; Skeleton;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Signal Processing, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE South African Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Jan Smuts Airport
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1292-9
DOI :
10.1109/COMSIG.1993.365867
