Efficient and robust segmentation and tracking of sperm cells in microscopic image sequences

Sperm motility analysis is an important factor in male fertility diagnosis. This article presents a hybrid segmentation method to detect sperm cells, which is robust to density variation of the cells in the image sequences. In addition, a preprocessing scheme is employed to remove fixed sperm cells...

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Main Authors: Fateme Mostajer Kheirkhah, Hamid Reza Sadegh Mohammadi, Abdolhossein Shahverdi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-08-01
Series:IET Computer Vision
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cvi.2018.5662