Modeling segmentation via geometric deformable regularizers, PDE and level sets in still and motion imagery: A revisit

International Journal of Image and Graphics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 681-734

  Suri, Jasjit ^a   Wu, Dee ^a   Reden, Laura ^a   Gao, Jianbo ^b   Singh, Sameer ^c   Laxminarayan, Swamy ^d  

^a PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b KLA TENCOR CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

deformable models; filtering; level sets; low level vision; medical imaging; motion estimation; Partial Differential Equations (PDEs); regularization; segmentation; shapes; topology

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FILTRATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LOW PASS FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

DEFORMABLE MODELS; LEVEL SET; LOW-LEVEL VISION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDES); REGULARIZATION; SHAPES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 13244268132     PISSN: 02194678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219467801000402     Document Type: Article

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