Novel 4-d open-curve active contour and curve completion approach for automated tree structure extraction

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1105-1112

  Wang, Yu ^a   Narayanaswamy, Arunachalam ^a   Roysam, Badrinath ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; GRAPHIC METHODS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CURVE COMPLETIONS; FAST-MARCHING SEGMENTATION; FULLY AUTOMATED; IMAGE ENERGY; STOPPING TIME; TREE STRUCTURES; TUBULAR STRUCTURES;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 80052914607     PISSN: 10636919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2011.5995620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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