The Application of the Snake Model in Carcinoma Cell Image Segment

Accurate cell nucleus segmentation is crucial for the development of automated cytological cancer recognition and diagnosis system. The paper proposes an improved Snake model for esophageal cell image based on the study of several main methods for esophageal cell image and analysis of their advantages and disadvantages. The novel cell nucleus segmentation method has been tested on a number of cell images obtained from esophageal smear slide and the results are encouraging. Experimental results show that the presented method performs well on both well-separated nuclei and some overlapped nuclei.

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