A Computational Approach to Edge Detection
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Feature detection from local energy
Pattern Recognition Letters
Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Digital Image Processing
Subjective Surfaces: A Geometric Model for Boundary Completion
International Journal of Computer Vision
Nonlinear Shape Statistics in Mumford-Shah Based Segmentation
ECCV '02 Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision-Part II
What Energy Functions Can Be Minimizedvia Graph Cuts?
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Level Set Evolution without Re-Initialization: A New Variational Formulation
CVPR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) - Volume 1 - Volume 01
International Journal of Computer Vision
Kernel Density Estimation and Intrinsic Alignment for Shape Priors in Level Set Segmentation
International Journal of Computer Vision
Graph Cuts and Efficient N-D Image Segmentation
International Journal of Computer Vision
International Journal of Computer Vision
Self-Invertible 2D Log-Gabor Wavelets
International Journal of Computer Vision
Semi-Implicit Covolume Method in 3D Image Segmentation
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Bone Segmentation and Fracture Detection in Ultrasound Using 3D Local Phase Features
MICCAI '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - Part I
Nonnegative Mixed-Norm Preconditioning for Microscopy Image Segmentation
IPMI '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging
A Generic Probabilistic Active Shape Model for Organ Segmentation
MICCAI '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention: Part II
Cell tracking and segmentation in electron microscopy images using graph cuts
ISBI'09 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE international conference on Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro
Cells segmentation from 3-D confocal images of early zebrafish embryogenesis
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
PICE: prior information constrained evolution for 3-D and 4-D brain tumor segmentation
ISBI'10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE international conference on Biomedical imaging: from nano to Macro
Efficient kernel density estimation of shape and intensity priors for level set segmentation
MICCAI'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention - Volume Part II
Segmentation of 3D cell membrane images by PDE methods and its applications
Computers in Biology and Medicine
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Minimization of Region-Scalable Fitting Energy for Image Segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
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Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) microscopy is a common approach for researching the dynamics of cell behaviors. Segmentation of shape of erythrocyte (red blood cell) is the basis of quantitative analysis of its deformability and hence its filterability. Commonly used manual segmentation of shapes of individual cells from samples by human visual inspection requires a large amount of tedious work because it is time consuming and exhaustive. This makes automatic cell image analysis essential in biology studies. In this paper, a novel level set based technique, called Complex Local Phase based Subjective Surfaces (CLAPSS), is proposed for the segmentation of differential interference contrast (DIC) red blood cell microscopy images. Based on the framework of a generalized version of subjective surfaces (GSUBSURF), a complex local phase based edge indicator function is introduced to replace the traditional gradient based edge detector for the local image feature acquisition, which is the key for the evolution of the surface. In addition, we propose a new variation scheme for stretching factor to achieve relatively accurate segmentation results even if the reference point is located nearby cell boundaries. We show that the proposed method is more accurate and reliable than several existing methods in experiments.