Integrating local distribution information with level set for boundary extraction

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 343-354

  He, Lei ^a   Zheng, Songfeng ^b   Wang, Li ^c  

^a Armstrong State University   (United States)

^b MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model; Hueckel edge operator; Image segmentation; Implicit active contour; Level set without initial contour; Local distribution fitting; Piecewise smooth image; Zernike moments

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; EDGE OPERATOR; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LEVEL SET; LOCAL DISTRIBUTIONS; PIECEWISE SMOOTH; ZERNIKE MOMENTS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 78049236921     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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