A multiscale approach to connectivity

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 70-107

  Braga Neto, Ulisses ^a,b   Goutsias, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; FUZZY SETS; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CONNECTIVITY; GRAYSCALE IMAGES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042904901     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1077-3142(03)00014-6     Document Type: Article

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