Local region descriptors for active contours evolution

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2275-2288

  Darolti, Cristina ^a   Mertins, Alfred ^a   Bodensteiner, Christoph ^a   Hofmann, Ulrich G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active contours; Image segmentation; Local statistics; Statistics

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PIXELS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DESCRIPTORS; ENERGY FUNCTIONAL; GAUSSIAN; IMAGE REGIONS; LARGE IMAGES; LEVEL SETS; LOCAL DENSITIES; LOCAL REGIONS; LOCAL STATISTICS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODELS; NOVEL FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; SHORT TIMES; SIMILARITY MEASURES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

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: 57049106777     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2008.2006443     Document Type: Article

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