Improved livewire method for segmentation on low contrast and noisy images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6512, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Chen, David ^a,b   Yao, Jianhua ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interactive segmentation; Livewire

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT HISTOGRAMS; INTERACTIVE SEGMENTATION; LIVEWIRE METHODS; NOISY IMAGES; PHANTOM IMAGES;

COST FUNCTIONS; GRAPH THEORY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 36248976065     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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