Active deformable models using density estimation

International Journal of Image and Graphics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 343-361

  Abd Almageed, Wael ^a   Smith, Christopher E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MSC01 1070   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contour models; expectation maximization; mixture of Gaussians; Parzen Window; pressure snakes

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ACTIVE DEFORMABLE MODELS; DENSITY ESTIMATION; EXPECTATION - MAXIMIZATIONS; MIXTURE OF GAUSSIANS; NEW APPROACHES; PARZEN WINDOWS; ROBUST FORMULATIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 85073111203     PISSN: 02194678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219467804001452     Document Type: Article

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