A fast snake model based on non-linear diffusion for medical image segmentation

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 109-117

  Wei, Min ^a   Zhou, Yongjin ^a   Wan, Mingxi ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; FGVF; Gradient Vector Flow; Snake

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEGRADATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW (GVF); INVERSE MATRIX;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION; FLOW KINETICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; CHINA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1842764913     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2003.12.002     Document Type: Article

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