A comparative evaluation of interactive segmentation algorithms

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 434-444

  McGuinness, Kevin ^a   O'Connor, Noel E ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fuzzy sets; Image segmentation; Interactive segmentation; Objective evaluation; Subjective evaluation; User experiments

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; DATA SETS; GROUND TRUTH; INTERACTIVE IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERACTIVE SEGMENTATION; JACCARD INDEX; MEASURING BOUNDARIES; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; SEGMENTATION TOOL; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION; USER EXPERIMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; EXPERIMENTS; FUZZY SETS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 70349326275     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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