Active contour model for simultaneous MR image segmentation and denoising

Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1186-1196

  Ge, Qi ^a   Xiao, Liang ^a,b   Wei, Zhi Hui ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Spectral Imaging and Intelligent Sense   (China)

Author keywords

Image denoising; Image segmentation; Local image information; Nadaraya Watson estimator; Perona Malik diffusion equation

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; EDGE-PRESERVING REGULARIZATION; GRADIENT DESCENT METHOD; IMAGE INFORMATION; NADARAYA-WATSON ESTIMATOR; PERONA-MALIK DIFFUSIONS; REGION BASED ACTIVE CONTOURS; REGULARIZATION TERMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84877575852     PISSN: 10512004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsp.2012.12.015     Document Type: Article

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