Region growing for segmenting green microalgae images

Authors

• Vinícius Ruela Pereira Borges (ICMC/USP São Carlos)
• Maria Cristina Ferreira Oliveira (ICMC/USP São Carlos)
• Thaís Garcia Silva (UFScar)
• Armando Augusto Henriques Vieira (UFSCar)
• Bernd Hamann (UC Davis)

Journal

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 15, ed. 1, pp. 257-270.

Dataset

Provided by the biologists. Some samples are available on data/ folder.

How to run

1. Include all the original images in the folder 'images/'

2. Open Matlab and type:

regionGrowingBasedSegmentation('images/','tests/');

3. Check the final segmentation result and the obtained seeds at the 'tests/' folder.

Acknowledgments

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP): grants 12/00269-7 and 13/26647-0.