GVF-based anisotropic diffusion models

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1517-1524

  Yu, Hongchuan ^a,b   Chua, Chin Seng ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion models; Gradient vector flow (GVF) fields; Intrinsic laplacian of curvature

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VECTORS;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION MODELS; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW (GVF) FIELDS; HIGH-ORDER DERIVATIVE; LARGE CAPTURE RANGE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646872407     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.871143     Document Type: Article

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