A fast, simple active contour algorithm for biomedical images

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 969-974

  Eviatar, H ^a   Somorjai, R L ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active contours; Biomedical images; Harmonic potential; Minimisation; Snakes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; BIOMEDICAL IMAGES; HARMONIC POTENTIAL; INTERNAL ENERGY FUNCTION;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0030212740     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8655(96)00054-2     Document Type: Article

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