A robust snake implementation; a dual active contour

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-68

  Qunn, Steve R ^a   Nixon, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active contours; Feature extraction; Local shape; Regularization; Snakes

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; LOCAL SHAPE; PARAMETERIZATION; REGULARIZATION; SNAKES;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0030736056     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.566812     Document Type: Article

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