Unsupervised variational image segmentation/classification using a weibull observation model

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3431-3439

  Ben Ayed, Ismail ^a   Hennane, Nacera ^a   Mitiche, Amar ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active curves; Classification; Image segmentation; Statistical modeling; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EULER-LAGRANGE DESCENT EQUATIONS; IMAGE INTENSITY; UNSUPERVISED IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 33750372414     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.881961     Document Type: Article

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