Detecting wide lines using isotropic nonlinear filtering

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1584-1595

  Liu, Laura ^a   Zhang, David ^a   You, Jane ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Curvilinear structures; Feature extraction; Isotropic nonlinear filter; Line detection; Wide line detector

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL DETECTION;

CURVILINEAR STRUCTURES; ISOTROPIC NONLINEAR FILTER; LINE DETECTION; WIDE LINE DETECTOR;

NONLINEAR FILTERING;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 34249032980     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.894288     Document Type: Article

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