Integrating watersheds and critical point analysis for object detection in discrete 2D images

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 177-185

  Fu, Guoyi ^a   Hojjat, S A ^a   Colchester, A C F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 4444272286     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2004.06.002     Document Type: Article

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