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Cesar Henrique Comin1, Xiaoyin Xu2, Yaming Wang3

  • 1University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Physics at Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics : the Official Journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
|August 16, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
CytoplasmMuscle fiberNucleiQuantificationSegmentationSkeletonization

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