A neural network for enhancing boundaries and surfaces in synthetic aperture radar images

Neural Networks

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 499-511

  Mingolla, Ennio ^a   Ross, William ^a   Grossberg, Stephen ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary segmentation; Diffusion; Image enhancement; Neural network; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BOUNDARY CONTOUR SYSTEM; BOUNDARY SEGMENTATION; FEATURE CONTOUR SYSTEM; IMAGE CONTRAST; IMAGE NOISE PIXELS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; BRAIN CORTEX; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSOR; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0032960759     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-6080(98)00144-0     Document Type: Article

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