A new deformable model based on level sets for medical image segmentation

IAENG International Journal of Computer Science

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Jayadevappa, D ^a   Srinivas Kumar, S ^a   Murty, D S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b GAYATRI VIDYA PARISHAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

Deformable models; Level sets and variational level sets; Medical image segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949560141     PISSN: 1819656X     EISSN: 18199224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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