Abstract It is a key step to quantitatively describe the images of the cytoskeleton in the analysis of cell morphology. However, to describe the cytoskeleton accurately, the areas which only include microfilaments or microtubules must be separated from the cytoskeleton image. Based on the ChanVese method and the Otsu method, an improved method for the segmentation of cytoskeleton images is introduced. The method realizes the segmentation of cytoskeleton images by combining the ChanVese method and the Otsu method which has stable and fast performance. The experimental results show that compared with the ChanVese method the improved method reduces the time significantly.
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