n-SIFT: n-Dimensional scale invariant feature transform

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2012-2021

  Cheung, Warren ^a   Hamarneh, Ghassan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomedical image processing; Difference of Gaussian; Feature extraction; Image matching; Medical images; Scale invariant feature transform (SIFT)

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; CT DATA; DIFFERENCE OF GAUSSIAN; FEATURE POINT CORRESPONDENCE; FEATURE VECTORS; HYPERSPHERICAL COORDINATES; MEDICAL IMAGES; MRI IMAGE; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL HISTOGRAMS; MULTIMODAL MEDICAL IMAGES; SALIENT FEATURES; SCALE INVARIANT; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORM (SIFT); SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS;

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOG; HEART; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOGS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69349102571     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2024578     Document Type: Article

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