title: Quantitative perimeter and area measurements of digital images.
abstract: Quantitative estimations of perimeter and area from digitized video images, and the application of these features in morphometry, are discussed. Estimations from manual tracings via interactive peripherals and from chain codes are addressed. Topics discussed are calibration, determination of vertical and horizontal pixel resolution, effects of tracing jitter, and for chain codes, the spatial quantization scheme representation of the digital contour. Finally, new perimeter estimators for 4-connected and 8-connected chain codes for non-unity pixel aspect ratio are presented with simulation results.
authors.affiliation: City College of New York, Department of Electrical Engineering 10031.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barba
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gil
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008853:Microscopy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted