Automatic tooth segmentation using active contour without edges

Biometrics Symposium, BCC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Shah, Samir ^a   Baza, Ayman A ^a   Ross, Arun ^a   Ammar, Hany ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; DENTISTRY; FOOD ADDITIVES;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; AUTOMATED DENTAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM; CHALLENGING TASK; CONTOUR EXTRACTION; DENTAL RECORDS; IMAGE GRADIENTS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 50249149583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BCC.2006.4341636     Document Type: Conference Paper

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