Hierarchical contour matching in medical images

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 417-433

  Xin, Yang ^a   Truyen, Bart ^a   Pratikakis, Ioannis ^a   Cornelis, Jan ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Contour matching; Hierarchical curvature matching; Medical image processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER VISION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CURVE FITTING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PERFORMANCE; VECTORS;

CONTOUR MATCHING; DISCRETIZATION PROCESS; HIERARCHICAL CURVATURE MATCHING; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTI SMOOTHING SCHEME; QUADRATIC FITTING CRITERION; TWO STEP PREDICTOR CORRECTOR SCHEME;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0030166712     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0262-8856(95)01080-7     Document Type: Article

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