Detecting irregular curvilinear structures in gray scale and color imagery using multi-directional oriented flux

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1553-1560

  Turetken, Engin ^a   Becker, Carlos ^a   Glowacki, Przemyslaw ^a   Benmansour, Fethallah ^a   Fua, Pascal ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Curvilinear networks; curvilinear structures; image gradient flux; multi directional oriented flux; optimally oriented flux; segmentation; tubular structures; tubularity measure

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

COMPLEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CURVILINEAR STRUCTURES; IMAGE GRADIENTS; IRREGULAR STRUCTURES; NEW APPROACHES; TUBULAR STRUCTURES; TUBULARITY MEASURE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84898821314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCV.2013.196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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