Minimization of region-scalable fitting energy for image segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1940-1949

  Li, Chunming ^a   Kao, Chiu Yen ^b   Gore, John C ^a   Ding, Zhaohua ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Intensity inhomogeneity; Level set method; Region scalable fitting energy; Variational method

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; CURVE EVOLUTION; DATA FITTINGS; ENERGY MINIMIZATIONS; FITTING FUNCTIONS; IMAGE INTENSITIES; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTENSITY INFORMATION; INTENSITY INHOMOGENEITY; KERNEL FUNCTIONS; LEVEL SET FUNCTIONS; LEVEL SET METHOD; LEVEL SETS; LOCAL REGIONS; RE-INITIALIZATION; REAL IMAGES; REAL-WORLD IMAGES; REGION-BASED; REGION-SCALABLE FITTING ENERGY; VARIATIONAL LEVEL SET; VARIATIONAL METHOD;

SET THEORY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 52649131914     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2008.2002304     Document Type: Article

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