Automatic cell segmentation in cyto- and histometry using dominant contourfeature points

Automatic cell segmentation has various,application potentials in cytometry and histometry. In this paper, an automatic cluster (touching) cell segmen tation approach using the dominant contour feature points has been presente d. Dominant feature points are the locations of indentation on the contour of the cluster. First, dominant feature points on the contour of the cluste r are detected by distance profile. Next, using shape features of the cells , these feature points are selected for segmentation. We compared the resul ts of the proposed method with manual segmentation and observed that the me thod has an overall accuracy about to 82%.