Reconciling distance functions and level sets

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 209-223

  Gomes, José ^a   Faugeras, Olivier ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Cortex segmentation from MRI; Distance function preservation; Euclidean skeletons; Front propagation; Geodesic active contours; Level set methods; Stereo from level set; Velocity extension

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001375652     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvci.1999.0439     Document Type: Article

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