An active contour model and its algorithms with local and global Gaussian distribution fitting energies

Information Sciences

Volumn 263, Issue , 2014, Pages 43-59

  Wang, Hui ^a,b   Huang, Ting Zhu ^a   Xu, Zongben ^c   Wang, Yilun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Anshun University   (China)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Active contour model; Chan Vese model; Gaussian distribution; Image segmentation; LBF model; Level set method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894899088     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2013.10.033     Document Type: Article

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