Fuzzy connectedness and object definition: Theory, algorithms, and applications in image segmentation

Graphical Models and Image Processing

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 246-261

  Udupa, Jayaram K ^a   Samarasekera, Supun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOPOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

DIMENSIONAL DIGITAL SPACES; FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS; HANGING TOGETHERNESS; IMAGE ELEMENTS; OBJECT DEFINITION;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0030145389     PISSN: 10773169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gmip.1996.0021     Document Type: Article

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