Parallel asynchronous computations for image analysis

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1218-1229

  Ducourthial, Bertrand ^a,c   Mérigot, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Asynchronous computations; Contour closing; Distance transformation; Image analysis; Mathematical morphology; Parallel computations; Vorono segmentation; Watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; GRAPH THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ASYNCHRONOUS COMPUTATIONS; CONTOUR CLOSING; DISTANCE TRANSFORMATION; VORONOÏ SEGMENTATION; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 21944438943     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2002.801454     Document Type: Article

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