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Shape-Based Features for Cat Ganglion Retinal Cells Classification

✍ Scribed by Regina Celia Coelho; Vito Di Gesù; Giosuè Lo Bosco; Júlia Sawaki Tanaka; Cesare Valenti

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Weight: 346 KB
Volume: 8
Category: Article
ISSN: 1077-2014
DOI: 10.1006/rtim.2002.0281

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✦ Synopsis

his article presents a quantitative and objective approach to cat ganglion cell characterization and classification. The combination of several biologically relevant features such as diameter, eccentricity, fractal dimension, influence histogram, influence area, convex hull area, and convex hull diameter are derived from geometrical transforms and then processed by three different clustering methods (Ward's hierarchical scheme, K-means and genetic algorithm), whose results are then combined by a voting strategy. These experiments indicate the superiority of some features and also suggest some possible biological implications.

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