Quantitative characterization of electron micrograph image using fractal feature
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
- Vol. 42 (10) , 1033-1037
- https://doi.org/10.1109/10.464378
Abstract
In this investigation, texture analysis was carried out on electron micrograph images. Fractal dimensions and spatial grey level co-occurrence matrices statistics were estimated on each homogeneous region of interest. The fractal model has the advantages that the fractal dimension correlates to the roughness of the surface and is stable over transformations of scale and linear transforms of intensity. It can be calculated using three different methods. The first method estimates fractal dimension based on the average intensity difference of pixel pairs. In the second method, fractal dimension is determined from the Fourier transformed domain. Finally, fractal dimension can be estimated using reticular cell counting approach. Moreover, automatic image segmentation was performed using fractal dimensions, spatial grey level co-occurrence matrices statistics, and grey level thresholding. Each image was segmented into a number of regions corresponding to distinctly different morphologies: heterochromatin, euchromatin, and background. Fractal dimensions and spatial grey level co-occurrence matrices statistics were found to be able to characterize and segment electron micrograph images.Keywords
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