Probabilistic shape-based segmentation method using level sets

IET Computer Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 182-194

  Aslan, Melih S ^a   Shalaby, Ahmed ^a   Abdelmunim, Hossam ^a   Farag, Aly A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

IMPLICIT REPRESENTATION; INTENSITY INFORMATION; MISSING INFORMATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SHAPE COEFFICIENTS; SHAPE-BASED SEGMENTATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84901941988     PISSN: 17519632     EISSN: 17519640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cvi.2012.0226     Document Type: Article

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