Curvature-driven PDE methods for matrix-valued images

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-107

  Feddern, Christian ^a   Weickert, Joachim ^a   Burgeth, Bernhard ^a   Welk, Martin ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active contours; Denoising; DT MRI; Edge detection; Mean curvature motion; Segmentation; Self snakes; Structure tensor

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EDGE DETECTION; GEODESY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VECTORS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; DENOISING; DT-MRI; MEAN CURVATURE MOTION; SELF-SNAKES; STRUCTURE TENSOR;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646872018     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-006-6854-8     Document Type: Article

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