Active contours driven by local Gaussian distribution fitting energy

Signal Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2435-2447

  Wang, Li ^a   He, Lei ^b   Mishra, Arabinda ^c   Li, Chunming ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Armstrong State University   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contour model; Image segmentation; Intensity inhomogeneity; Level set method; Probability distribution; Variational method

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ACTIVE CONTOURS; COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; IMAGE INTENSITIES; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTENSITY INHOMOGENEITY; ITERATIVE PROCESS; LEVEL SET FUNCTIONS; LEVEL SET METHOD; LEVEL-SET EVOLUTION; LOCAL MEAN; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; REGION BASED ACTIVE CONTOURS; TEXTURE IMAGE; TEXTURE PATTERNS; VARIATIONAL LEVEL SET; VARIATIONAL METHOD;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; DROP BREAKUP; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SET THEORY; TEXTURES; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 67651092103     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.03.014     Document Type: Article

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