title: Evaluation of shape descriptors for the morphometric analysis of cell nuclei.
abstract: A series of shape descriptors were developed for the morphometrical analysis of cell nuclei. These included five descriptors measuring ellipticity, two measuring concavity, and one measuring the bending energy of a contour. These different shape descriptors were compared using a test sample of 1800 contours of cell nuclei.
mesh_terms: D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D008433:Mathematics; D008961:Models, Structural