An Algorithm to Separate Overlapping Particles Based on Connected Operator
Jinhui Cai · Journal of Circuits and Systems · 2004
In order to efficiently separate the overlapped particles in the image, some techniques have been developed such as binary conversion, distance function, morphology grayscale reconstruction and watershed transformation. Besides the introduction of theory and effect of every algorithm in segmentation, some improvements are provided to reduce the computing complexity and increase the boundary accuracy, including making use of two queues. Some examples are given to validate the applicability and good performance of the proposed algorithm.