Automatic separation of overlapping objects
Binghan Liu, Xiuduan Fang, Wang Weizhi, Zheng Zhiyong · 2003
This paper presents an algorithm based on mathematical morphology to separate overlapping objects automatically, which locates their linking points by the distance transform and dilation. It develops the design and implementation of the approach. In particular, it applies the technique to the problem of separating liver cells in hepatitis pathology images. The experiments show that the technique is fast and the separated results are satisfactory.