Contrast definition for optical coherent polarimetric images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 947-951

  Goudail, François ^a   Refrégier, Philippe ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Active contours; Contrast definition; Detection; Image processing; Polarimetric imaging; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COHERENT LIGHT; EDGE DETECTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CONTRAST DEFINITION; POLARIMETRIC IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 3042583327     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2004.22     Document Type: Article

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