Figure 8.

Estimation of the fractal dimension of a myeloma cell nucleus. (A) Myeloma cell nucleus after segmentation (left) and its pseudo 3D transformation (right). (B) The log-log-plot (also called log-log plot or log-log graph ) for the determination of the fractal dimension (FD) is estimated from the slope of the ideal regression line (black) obtained by curve fitting. X-axis shows the logarithms of the inverse values of the size of the structuring element and y axis the logarithmic values of the fractal areas. The fractal dimension (FD) is derived from the slope of the regression line.

Scaling window: 200 nm–6.000 nm.

Images and graph taken from [124].