Edge detection in noisy data using finite mixture distribution analysis

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 685-699

  Thune, Mari ^a   Olstad, Bjørn ^b   Thune, Nils ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN COMPUTING CENTER   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c Metronor AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; Edge detection; Finite mixture distribution analysis; Information criteria; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FINITE MIXTURE DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0031145280     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(96)00115-X     Document Type: Article

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