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Detection of Disk-Like Particles in Electron Microscopy Images

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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems CORES 2013

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 226))

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Quantitative and qualitative description of particles is one of the most important tasks in the Electron Microscopy (EM) analysis. In this paper, we present an algorithm for identifying ball-like nanostructures of gahnite in the Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) images. Our solution is based on the cross-entropy clustering which allows to count and measure disk-like objects which are not necessary disjoint or with not smooth borders.

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  1. Institute of Mathematics, Jan Kochanowski University, Świętokrzyska 15, 25-406, Kielce, Poland

    P. Spurek & E. Zając

  2. Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348, Kraków, Poland

    J. Tabor

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  1. , Department of Systems and Computer, Wroclaw University of Technology, WybrzezeWyspianskiego St 27, Wroclaw, 50-370, Poland

    Robert Burduk

  2. , Department of Systems and Computer, Wroclaw University of Technology, WybrzezeWyspianskiego St 27, Wroclaw, 50-370, Poland

    Konrad Jackowski

  3. , Department of Systems and Computer, Wroclaw University of Technology, WybrzezeWyspianskiego St 27, Wroclaw, 50-370, Poland

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    Michał Wozniak

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    Andrzej Zolnierek

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Spurek, P., Tabor, J., Zając, E. (2013). Detection of Disk-Like Particles in Electron Microscopy Images. In: Burduk, R., Jackowski, K., Kurzynski, M., Wozniak, M., Zolnierek, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems CORES 2013. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 226. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00969-8_40

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