Multiresolution Analysis of Ridges and Valleys in Grey-Scale Images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 635-646

  Gauch, John M ^a   Pizer, Stephen M ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina University Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; curvature extrema; geometric; models; multiresolution analysis; ridges; shape analysis; symmetric axis; valleys; watershed boundaries

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MACHINE VISION;

BIOMEDICAL VISION; GRAY SCALE IMAGES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0027610850     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.216734     Document Type: Article

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