Genetic snakes for medical images segmentation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1596, Issue , 1999, Pages 59-73

  Ballerini, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTECTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ELASTICITY PARAMETERS; ENERGY MINIMIZATION PROCEDURE; FOVEAL AVASCULAR ZONES; GLOBAL SEARCH PROCEDURE; IMAGES SEGMENTATIONS; LAPLACIAN OF GAUSSIAN; OCULAR FUNDUS IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84942428993     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/10704703_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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