Region-based vessel segmentation using level set framework

International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 660-667

  Yu, Gang ^a   Lin, Pan ^b   Li, Peng ^a   Bian, Zhengzhong ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Energy function; Level set; Region based segmentation; Snake

Indexed keywords

ENERGY FUNCTION; LEVEL SET; REGION BASED SEGMENTATION; SNAKE;

ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33749477527     PISSN: 15986446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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