A system for ultrasound image segmentation for loin eye measurements in swine

Canadian Agricultural Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-53

  Tong, A W K ^a   Qureshi, R ^b   Li, X ^b   Sather, A P ^a  

^a LACOMBE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Curve fitting; Low contract images; Morphology; Region growing; Segmentation; Snake

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CURVE FITTING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 0031706897     PISSN: 0045432X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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