Automatic image segmentation method using sequential level set

Ruan Jian Xue Bao/Journal of Software

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1185-1193

  Wang, Bin ^a   Gao, Xin Bo ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Finite difference; Geometric active contour; Image segmentation; Level set method; Partial differential equation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IMAGE SEGMENTATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE; GEOMETRIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET FUNCTIONS; LEVEL SET METHOD; MEDICAL IMAGES; REGION-BASED; REINITIALIZATION; SINGLE LEVEL; SUB-REGION; SUB-REGIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; DROP BREAKUP; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SET THEORY;

LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

EID: 65749106961     PISSN: 10009825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1001.2009.03541     Document Type: Article

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