WaterBalloons: A hybrid watershed Balloon Snake segmentation

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 905-912

  Dagher, Issam ^a   Tom, Kamal El ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Active contour model; Segmentation; Snake balloon; WaterBalloons; Watershed

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS; SNAKE BALLOON;

WATERSHEDS;

EID: 42249084889     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2007.10.010     Document Type: Article

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