An automatic active contour model for multiple objects

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 881-884

  Ge, Xingfei ^a   Tian, Jie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW FIELD; NORMAL DEFORMATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ACTIVE CONTOURS; ACTIVE CONTOURS MODEL; EXTERNAL ENERGY; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW FIELDS; MULTIPLE OBJECTS; NORMAL DEFORMATIONS; SEGMENTATION OF MEDICAL IMAGES;

EID: 33751572865     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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