Scale-based fuzzy connected image segmentation: Theory, algorithms, and validation

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 145-174

  Saha, Punam K ^a   Udupa, Jayaram K ^a   Odhner, Dewey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY SETS;

FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0034141034     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1999.0813     Document Type: Article

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