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Title of Article Modified Watershed Transform Algorithm for Cancer Cell Segmentation Counting  
Date of Acceptance 29 June 2016 
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     Title of Journal KKU Engineering Journal  
     Standard TCI 
     Institute of Journal Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University  
     ISBN/ISSN  
     Volume 2016 
     Issue 43 
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     Year of Publication 2016 
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     Abstract In cancer research, the migration-invasion assay is one of the most important experiments used to evaluate the spreading potential of cancer cells from primary site of tumor to other organs. The process needs to read the number of cells spread to target organs on the pictures taken under microscopic in order to evaluate the performance of clinical trails on various cancer treatments. The number is usually counted, manually, under microscope or using Image J software as an assisting tool. However, the cells are difficult to identify since they are usually overlapped, hence, the process requires experienced researchers. Moreover, the process is time consuming and subjective, which could lead to an inaccurate results. In this paper, an alternative approach to segment and count the number of cells is presented. The proposed algorithm is based on digital image processing technique, specifically, Watershed transform. The studied pictures are from migration-invasion assay bile duct cancer cell line. The results are compared to the numbers reported by three experienced researchers. The results show that the proposed method can achieve 97.01% average on accuracy. The average time of processing per picture is 4.28 minute.  
     Keyword Image segmentation, Watershed transform, Cancer cell 
Author
575040069-7 Mr. KORAWIT NAMWONG [Main Author]
Engineering Master's Degree

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