Analysis of the critical point of the gradient vector flow snake model

Ruan Jian Xue Bao/Journal of Software

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1915-1921

  Wang, Yuan Quan ^a   Jia, Yun De ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Critical point; GVF (gradient vector flow) snake; Image segmentation; Navier Stokes equation; Viscous fluid flow

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EDGE DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

BOUNDARY CONCAVITY; CAPTURE RANGE; CRITICAL POINTS; EXTERNAL FORCE FIELDS; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW SNAKE; SNAKE MODELS; VISCOUS FLUID FLOW;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33750421648     PISSN: 10009825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/jos171915     Document Type: Article

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