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Microscope Image Processing
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Microscope Image Processing

by Qiang Wu, Fatima Merchant, Kenneth Castleman
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
17h 29m
English
Academic Press
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chain code specifies the direction in which a step must be taken to go from the
present boundary point to the next. Figure 9.17 shows the eight directions of
the neighboring pixels. The eight possible directions can be represented by three
bits. Thus the boundary chain code consists of the coordinates of the starting
point, followed by a sequence of direction codes that specify the path around
the boundary.
With the boundary chain code, encoding the segmentation of an object
requires only one ( x, y) coordinate and then three bits for each boundary
point. This is considerably less data than that required for the object label
map. When a complex scene ...
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ISBN: 9780080558547