Robust image segmentation using resampling and shape constraints

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1147-1164

  Zöller, Thomas ^a   Buhmann, Joachim M ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER IAIS   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Generalization; Learning; Mixture models; Resampling; Segmentation; Shape analysis

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIXELS; SAMPLING; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN STATISTICS; MIXTURE MODEL; RESAMPLING; SHAPE ANALYSIS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34249711481     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1150     Document Type: Article

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