The multiscale medial properties of interfering image structures

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-34

  Xu, Ming ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Medial axis; Ridge; Scale space; Shape representation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

IMAGE STRUCTURES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0344120320     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2003.08.009     Document Type: Article

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