Active contour model combining region and edge information

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-61

  Tian, Yun ^a   Duan, Fuqing ^a   Zhou, Mingquan ^a   Wu, Zhongke ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Active contour model; Edge information; Gaussian convolution; Global statistical information; Local statistical information; Regularization

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; EDGE INFORMATION; GAUSSIAN CONVOLUTION; REGULARIZATION; STATISTICAL INFORMATION;

CONVOLUTION; STATISTICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84872326266     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-011-0363-7     Document Type: Article

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