Active contours without edges

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 266-277

  Chan, Tony F ^a,b   Vese, Luminita A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS;

ALGORITHMS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SET THEORY;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035248865     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.902291     Document Type: Article

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