Snakuscules

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 585-593

  Thévenaz, Philippe ^a   Unser, Michael ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Curve fitting; Geometric modeling; Image region analysis; Image shape analysis; Object detection; Parameter estimation; Position measurement; Size measurement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CURVE FITTING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POSITION MEASUREMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING;

REGULARIZATION; SNAKUSCULES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 41849134716     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.914742     Document Type: Article

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