Patents Assigned to CSSIP (Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing)
  • Method of unsupervised cell nuclei segmentation
    Patent number: 6681035
    Abstract: A method of segmentation of cell nuclei is described that uses an active contours approach based on a Viterbi search algorithm. Also disclosed is an initialisation technique that maximises the probability of a correct segmentation. The invention also includes a method to classify cell nuclei according to the difficulty of correct segmentation. Nuclei that are difficult to segment can be rejected to minimise the probability of false positives. The probability of false positives can be driven close to 0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: CSSIP (Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing)
    Inventors: Pascal Bamford, Brian Lovell