Modelling stochastic changes in curve shape, with an application to cancer diagnostics

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 344-362

  Hobolth, Asger ^a   Vedel Jensen, Eva B ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cancer diagnostics; Cyclic stationarity; Deformable templates; Featureless objects; Markov random field; Shape; Stochastic geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034205361     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1013540167     Document Type: Article

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