A multistage, optimal active contour model

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1586-1591

  Wang, Mao ^a   Evans, Joyce ^a   Hassebrook, Laurence ^a   Knapp, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER VISION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EDGE DETECTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; BELLMAN OPTIMALITY PRINCIPLE; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; EULER-LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; GLOBAL MINIMUM ENERGY STATE; IMAGE FEATURES; IMAGE MATCHING; MINIMUM ENERGY STATE; QUASIMINIMUM ENERGY STATE; SPLINE REPRESENTATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0030287351     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.541430     Document Type: Article

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