Active contour external force using vector field convolution for image segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2096-2106

  Li, Bing ^a   Acton, Scott T ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contours; Deformable models; External force; Gradient vector flow (GVF); Snakes; Vector field convolution (VFC)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; NUMERICAL METHODS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; VECTOR FIELD CONVOLUTION; VECTOR FIELD KERNEL;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 34547777302     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.899601     Document Type: Article

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