Case-based reasoning for image segmentation by watershed transformation

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 73, Issue , 2008, Pages 319-353

  Frucci, M ^a   Perner, P ^b   Sanniti di Baja, G ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences   (Germany)

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EID: 42449139621     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73180-1_11     Document Type: Article

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