Multiphase active contour segmentation constrained by evolving medial axes

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2993-2996

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Matuszewski, Bogdan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constrained segmentation; Level set; Medial axis; Multi object segmentation; Topology preservation

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SET THEORY; TOOLS; TOPOLOGY;

ACTIVE CONTOUR SEGMENTATION; ACTIVE CONTOURS; COMPLEX OBJECTS; EVOLUTION EQUATIONS; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET FUNCTIONS; MEDIAL AXIS; MULTI-OBJECT SEGMENTATION; REAL IMAGES; SEGMENTATION LEVELS; SHAPE CONSTRAINTS; TOPOLOGICAL CONFIGURATION; TOPOLOGY PRESERVATION; VELOCITY COMPONENTS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77951949021     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5414505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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