A fast and stable snake algorithm for medical images

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 507-512

  Joong Kang, Dong ^a  

^a Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Active contours; Dynamic programming; Local motion similarity; Medical image processing; Modified internal energy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; DISCRETE DYNAMIC MODELS;

PATTERN MATCHING;

EID: 0032651903     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(99)00019-7     Document Type: Article

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