Symmetric region growing

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1007-1015

  Wan, Shu Yen ^a   Higgins, William E ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Connected components analysis; Image segmentation; Region growing; Region based segmentation; Three dimensional image analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

REGION GROWING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0041927983     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2003.815258     Document Type: Article

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