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The automatic analysis of cytological preparations is very challenging due to complexity of cellular structures. Classical segmentation methods such as thresholding, active contours or watershed are effective only for simple cases where nuclei are well isolated from each other. Unfortunately, in case of cytological material this requirement is very rarely fulfilled. To tackle this problem, I propose the method which transforms cytological image into simpler form where nuclei are approximated by circular or elliptical-shaped objects.