This paper presents an hybrid segmentation technique that combines both the speed of an edge based approach with the robustness of a surface based approach. It consists of three s...
Advances in imaging techniques have led to large repositories of images. There is an increasing demand for automated systems that can analyze complex medical images and extract me...
An approach for rapid, automatic detection of plant roots in minirhizotron images is presented. The problem is modeled as a Gibbs point process with a modified Candy model, in wh...
Guang Zeng, Stanley T. Birchfield, Christina E. We...
Accurate determination of the vessel axis is a prerequisite for automated visualization and quantification of artery diseases. This paper presents an evaluation of different metho...
—Extracting a signature from a check with patterned background is a thorny problem in image segmentation. Methods based on threshold techniques often necessitate meticulous postp...