Tuner: Principled parameter finding for image segmentation algorithms using visual response surface exploration

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1892-1901

  Torsney Weir, Thomas ^a   Saad, Ahmed ^a   Möller, Torsten ^a   Weber, Britta ^b   Hege, Hans Christian ^b   Verbavatz, Jean Marc ^c   Bergner, Steven ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gaussian Process Model; Image segmentation; Parameter exploration

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL SAMPLES; ELECTRON TOMOGRAMS; GAUSSIAN PROCESS MODELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; MANUAL PROCESS; MICROTUBULES; MODEL OF UNCERTAINTY; PARAMETER EXPLORATION; PARAMETER MODEL; PARAMETER SPACES; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; SPARSE SAMPLING; STATISTICAL MODELS; THREE-PARAMETER MODELS; TWO STAGE; VISUAL RESPONSE;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SAMPLING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROTUBULE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 80855130066     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.248     Document Type: Article

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