A global unimodal thresholding based on probabilistic reference maps for the segmentation of muscle images

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1080-1089

  Sifre Maunier, Laurence ^a   Taylor, Richard G ^a   Berge, Philippe ^a   Culioli, Joseph ^a   Bonny, Jean Marie ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Muscle; Segmentation; Unimodal thresholding

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MUSCLE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS;

DISTRIBUTION DIFFERENCES; INTRAMUSCULAR CONNECTIVE TISSUE (IMCT); PROBABILISTIC MAPS THRESHOLDING (PMT); UNIMODAL THRESHOLDING;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 33747048611     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2006.03.004     Document Type: Article

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