An unbiased detector of curvilinear structures

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 113-125

  Steger, Garsten ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerial images; Contour linking; Curvilinear structures; Feature extraction; Lines; Low level processing; Medical images; Scale space

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

CONTOUR LINKING; CURVILINEAR STRUCTURES; LOW LEVEL PROCESSING;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0032003008     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.659930     Document Type: Article

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