Inertial snake for contour detection in ultrasonography images

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 235-240

  Das, B ^a   Banerjee, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION ESTIMATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS; CONTOUR DETECTION; INERTIAL SNAKES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 3242807394     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:20040310     Document Type: Article

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