Active contours driven by local likelihood image fitting energy for image segmentation

Information Sciences

Volumn 301, Issue , 2015, Pages 285-304

  Ji, Zexuan ^a   Xia, Yong ^b   Sun, Quansen ^a   Cao, Guo ^a   Chen, Qiang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Level set method; Local likelihood image fitting energy; Variational method

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; IMAGE FITTING; INTENSITY INHOMOGENEITY; LEVEL SET METHOD; REGION BASED ACTIVE CONTOURS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; VARIATIONAL LEVEL SET FORMULATIONS; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84922719671     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2015.01.006     Document Type: Article

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