COMPARING YEAST CELLS SEGMENTATION THROUGH HIERARCHICAL TREES

Marco Antonio Garcia de Carvalho, Tiago Willian Pinto

2006

Abstract

Image filtering and segmentation consists of separating an image into regions according to some criteria and to the application finality. Recent publications in the image processing domain make use of a segmentation strategy called multiscale or hierarchical segmentation. The multiscale segmentation provides a family of partitions of an image, presenting it at several levels of resolution. This work studies a multiscale image representation called Tree of the Critical Lakes (TCL), that provides an set of nested partitions of an image. The Tree of the Critical Lakes is defined from the Watershed Transform, the traditional tool of Mathematical Morphology in image segmentation operations. Moreover, we implement a comparison between TCL and another way of image representation, called Component Tree (CT). The CT consists of a set of cross-sections images and its connected components, linked thanks to the inclusion relation. We show experiments of image segmentation, based on TCLs and CTs, for a group of yeast cells images.

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Antonio Garcia de Carvalho M. and Willian Pinto T. (2006). COMPARING YEAST CELLS SEGMENTATION THROUGH HIERARCHICAL TREES . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, ISBN 972-8865-40-6, pages 515-518. DOI: 10.5220/0001371505150518


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@conference{visapp06,
author={Marco Antonio Garcia de Carvalho and Tiago Willian Pinto},
title={COMPARING YEAST CELLS SEGMENTATION THROUGH HIERARCHICAL TREES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP,},
year={2006},
pages={515-518},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001371505150518},
isbn={972-8865-40-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP,
TI - COMPARING YEAST CELLS SEGMENTATION THROUGH HIERARCHICAL TREES
SN - 972-8865-40-6
AU - Antonio Garcia de Carvalho M.
AU - Willian Pinto T.
PY - 2006
SP - 515
EP - 518
DO - 10.5220/0001371505150518