Case-based-reasoning for image segmentation

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 829-842

  Frucci, Maria ^a   Perner, Petra ^b   Di Baja, Gabriella Sanniti ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Segmentation; Watershed transformation

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CASE-BASED-REASONING; IMAGE DOMAINS; SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION APPROACH; WATERSHED TRANSFORMATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 51449099029     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001408006491     Document Type: Article

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