Multi-resolutional watershed segmentation with user-guided grouping

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3338, Issue , 1998, Pages 1087-1095

  Kim, Desok ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catchment basins; Coarse to fine recombination; Laplacian of Gaussian kernel; Multi resolutional filtering; Object boundary; Quantitative image analysis; Scale space; Topographical landmarks; Watershed lines

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; RADIOGRAPHY; RUNOFF; SPACE PROBES; TRELLIS CODES; WATERSHEDS;

CATCHMENT BASINS; COARSE-TO-FINE RECOMBINATION; LAPLACIAN OF GAUSSIAN KERNEL; MULTI-RESOLUTIONAL FILTERING; OBJECT BOUNDARY; QUANTITATIVE IMAGE ANALYSIS; SCALE SPACE; TOPOGRAPHICAL LANDMARKS; WATERSHED LINES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 38549179669     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.310834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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