Development, implementation and evaluation of segmentation algorithms for the automatic classification of cervical cells

Cancer of the uterine cervix is one of the most common cancers in women. An effective screening program for pre-cancerous and cancerous lesions can dramatically reduce the mortality rate for this disease. In British Columbia where such a screening program has been in place for some time, 2500 to 300...

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Main Author: MacAulay, Calum Eric
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29184