A general theory of image segmentation: Level set segmentation in the fuzzy connectedness framework

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6512, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Ciesielski, Krzysztof Chris ^a,b   Udupa, Jayaram K ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRONT PROPAGATION (FP) LEVEL SET ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS ALGORITHM; LEVEL SETS; MATHEMATICAL METHODOLOGIES;

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 36248973693     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.706271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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