Snakes with an ellipse-reproducing property

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1258-1271

  Delgado Gonzalo, Ricard ^a   Thévenaz, Philippe ^a   Seelamantula, Chandra Sekhar ^b   Unser, Michael ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Active contour; exponential B spline; parameterization; parametric snake; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; B-SPLINE; BASIS FUNCTIONS; BLOB-LIKE OBJECTS; CLOSED CURVE; CROSS SECTION; DESIGN CONSTRAINTS; ELLIPTICAL SHAPES; PARAMETRIC SNAKES; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHILD; ENDOCARDIUM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HELA CELL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHILD; ENDOCARDIUM; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84855681456     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2169975     Document Type: Article

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