Medical Endoscopic Image Segmentation Using Snakes

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E87-D, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 785-789

  Yoon, Sung Won ^a   Lee, Hai Kwang ^a   Kim, Jeong Hoon ^b   Lee, Myoung Ho ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Shinhan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Active contour models; Deformable models; GGF; GVF; Segmentation; Snakes

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SURGERY; VECTORS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS; DEFORMABLE MODELS; GAUSSIAN GRADIENT FORCE (GGF); GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW (GVF); SNAKES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 1642278318     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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