Moment-based alignment for shape prior with variational B-spline level set

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1075-1091

  Tran, Thi Thao ^a   Pham, Van Truong ^a   Shyu, Kuo Kai ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

B spline; Geometric moment; Level set method; Segmentation; Shape alignment

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; B-SPLINE; COUPLED PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GEOMETRIC MOMENT; LEVEL SET METHOD; REGION BASED ACTIVE CONTOURS; SHAPE TRANSFORMATION;

ALIGNMENT; INTERPOLATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84879554787     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-013-0504-2     Document Type: Article

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