Evaluation of methods for ridge and valley detection

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 327-335

  Löpez, Antonio M ^a   Lumbreras, Felipe ^a   Serrât, Joan ^a   Villanueva, Juan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

RIDGE/VALLEY DETECTION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032686942     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.761263     Document Type: Article

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