A region merging prior for variational level set image segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2301-2311

  Ben Ayed, Ismail ^a,b   Mitiche, Amar ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^b General Electric Company Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active contours; Image segmentation; Level sets; Segmentation prior

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MERGING;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CURRENT LEVELS; CURVE EVOLUTIONS; LEVEL SETS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONAL; REAL IMAGES; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION PRIOR; STATISTICAL INTERPRETATIONS; VARIATIONAL LEVEL SETS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

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

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

EID: 57049112629     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2008.2006425     Document Type: Article

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