Object class uncertainty induced snake with applications to medical image segmentation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 I, Issue , 2004, Pages 369-380

  Das, Bipul ^a   Saha, P Kumar ^a   Wehrli, Felix W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Energy minimization; Image gradient; Object class uncertainty; Rigidity; Snake; Spline

Indexed keywords

ENERGY MINIMIZATION; IMAGE GRADIENT; OBJECT CLASS UNCERTAINTY; SNAKE; SPLINE;

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 5644277859     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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