OBJECTIVES: This paper aims at introducing a novel approach for segmentation of overlapping objects and at demonstrating its applicability to medical images. METHODS: This work details a novel approach enhancing the known theory of full-segmentation of an image into regions by lifting it to a semantic segmentation into objects...
Keywords: Algorithms, Computer-assisted image processing, computer-assisted image interpretation, photomicrography, fluorescence microscopy, image segmentation, overlapping objects, occluding objects
01/2004 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerCellulosic fiber interfaces are critical to the material properties of paper. Likewise, the presence of water in a paper sheet is an important property, because paper is a wet-laid structure and the cellulosic fibers that compose it are hygroscopic...
Keywords: bleached kraft softwood pulp, cellulose fibers, fiber bonding, fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), material interfaces, papermaking, water removal
07/2008 | Holzforschung, Walter de Gruyter