Profile Detection in Medical and Astronomical Images by Means of the Hough Transform of Special Classes of Curves

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 296-310

  Massone, Anna Maria ^a   Perasso, Annalisa ^b   Campi, Cristina ^a   Beltrametti, Mauro C ^b  

^a CNR SPIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algebraic plane curve; Curve detection; Hough transform; Image processing; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; CURVE FITTING; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NASA; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOLAR POWER SATELLITES;

ALGEBRAIC CURVES; ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES; AUTOMATED RECOGNITION; CURVE DETECTION; PLANE CURVES; RECOGNITION ALGORITHM; SOLAR DYNAMICS OBSERVATORIES; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84923264881     PISSN: 09249907     EISSN: 15737683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10851-014-0521-4     Document Type: Article

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