Active contours with selective local or global segmentation: A new formulation and level set method

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 668-676

  Zhang, Kaihua ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Song, Huihui ^b   Zhou, Wengang ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Active contours; Chan Vese model; Geodesic active contours; Image segmentation; Level set method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COST REDUCTION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; DROP BREAKUP; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEODESY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SET THEORY;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; BINARY FUNCTIONS; BLURRED EDGES; CHAN-VESE MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME; GAUSSIAN FILTERING; GAUSSIAN SMOOTHING; GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOURS; GLOBAL SEGMENTATION; INITIAL CONTOUR; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET FUNCTIONS; LEVEL SET METHOD; PRESSURE FORCE; REAL IMAGES; REGION BASED ACTIVE CONTOURS; REGION-BASED; REINITIALIZATION; SIGNED DISTANCE FUNCTION; SPECIAL PROCESSING;

LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

EID: 74749087232     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.10.009     Document Type: Article

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