A hybrid boundary detection algorithm based on watershed and snake

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1256-1265

  Zhao, Chen Guang ^a   Zhuang, Tian Ge ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Active contour model; Image segmentation; Snakes; Watershed image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; WATERSHEDS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; GRADIENT VECTOR; SNAKES; WATERSHED IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 18444364220     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.11.009     Document Type: Article

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