An early vision-based snake model for ultrasound image segmentation

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 273-285

  Chen, Chung Ming ^a   Lu, Henry Horng Shing ^b   Lin, Yu Chen ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Discrete snake model; Early vision model; Image segmentation; Snake; Speckles; Texture; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECKLE;

DISCRETE SNAKE MODEL; EARLY VISION MODEL; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034059644     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(99)00140-4     Document Type: Article

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