An improved method to reduce over-segmentation of watershed transformation and its application in the contour extraction of brain image

8th IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, DASC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 407-412

  Zhu, Hui ^a   Zhang, Bofeng ^a   Song, Anping ^a   Zhang, Wu ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contour extraction; h minima; multi scale alternating sequential filtering by reconstruction; Over segmentation; Watershed transformation

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR EXTRACTION; MULTISCALES; OVER SEGMENTATION; SEQUENTIAL FILTERING; WATERSHED TRANSFORMATIONS;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; REPAIR; RESONANCE; WATERSHEDS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77950573384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DASC.2009.116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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