Active contours driven by local Gaussian distribution fitting energy

DOI10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.03.014zbMath1197.94138OpenAlexW2051477566MaRDI QIDQ1957679

Chunming Li, Lei He, Arabinda Mishra, Li Wang

Publication date: 27 September 2010

Published in: Signal Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.03.014

zbMATH Keywords

probability distributionlevel set methodvariational methodimage segmentationactive contour modelintensity inhomogeneity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12)

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