Implementation of a pixel-level snake algorithm on a CNNUM-based chip set architecture

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 885-891

  Vilariño, David L ^a   Rekeczky, Csaba ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Active contours; Analogic algorithms; Cellular neural networks (CNNs); CNN universal machine (CNNUM); Pixel level snakes (PLS)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION;

ANALOGIC ALGORITHMS; PIXEL;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 2542633661     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2004.827637     Document Type: Article

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