Snakes, shapes, and gradient vector flow

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 359-369

  Xu, Chenyang ^a,b   Prince, Jerry L ^a,b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contour models; Deformable surface models; Edge detection; Gradient vector flow; Image segmentation; Shape representation and recovery; Snakes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS; DEFORMABLE SURFACE MODELS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0032028944     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.661186     Document Type: Article

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