Knowledge-guided segmentation of 3D imagery

Graphical Models and Image Processing

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 510-523

  Ezquerra, Norberto ^a   Mullick, Rakesh ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

KNOWLEDGE GUIDED IMAGE SEGMENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGERY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0030284377     PISSN: 10773169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gmip.1996.0043     Document Type: Article

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