A fast level set method for segmentation of low contrast noisy biomedical images

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 161-169

  Deng, Jiangwen ^a   Tsui, H T ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Active contour; Front propagation; Image segmentation; Level set

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SET THEORY; TOPOLOGY;

NOISY IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0036132354     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(01)00113-1     Document Type: Article

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