Flux maximizing geometric flows

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1565-1578

  Vasilevskiy, Alexander ^a   Siddiqi, Kaleem ^b  

^a IBM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood vessel segmentation; Divergence and flux; Geometric active contours; Gradient flows; Shape analysis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; THEOREM PROVING;

BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENTATION; GEOMETRIC ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; GEOMETRIC FLOW; GRADIENT FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY IMAGE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0036940308     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2002.1114849     Document Type: Article

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