Adaptive level-set evolution without initial contours for image segmentation

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Li, Meng ^a   He, Chuanjiang ^a   Zhan, Yi ^b  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; BOUNDED FUNCTION; CONSTANT FUNCTIONS; ENERGY FUNCTIONALS; EXTERNAL ENERGY; GRADIENT FLOW; INITIAL CONTOUR; INTERNAL ENERGIES; LEVEL SETS; LEVEL-SET EVOLUTION; LEVEL-SET FUNCTION; REAL IMAGES; SYNTHETIC IMAGES; VARIATIONAL FORMULATION;

ROTATIONAL FLOW; SET THEORY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 80054951294     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3574770     Document Type: Article

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