Consistency and stability of active contours with Euclidean and non-Euclidean arc lengths

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1549-1559

  Ma, Tianyun ^b   Tagare, Hemant D ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contour; Segmentation; Snake

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000996650     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.799883     Document Type: Article

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