Title :
Region growing: a new approach
Author :
Hojjatoleslami, S.A. ; Kittler, J.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Vision, Speech & Signal Processing, Surrey Univ., Guildford, UK
fDate :
7/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A new region growing method for finding the boundaries of blobs is presented. A unique feature of the method is that at each step, at most one pixel exhibits the required properties to join the region. The method uses two novel discontinuity measures, average contrast and peripheral contrast, to control the growing process
Keywords :
biomedical NMR; image segmentation; medical image processing; MRI; average contrast; blob boundaries; discontinuity measures; image segmentation; medical images; peripheral contrast; region growing method; region segmentation; Biomedical imaging; Image analysis; Image segmentation; Pixel; Process control; Shape measurement; Signal processing; Speech processing; Testing; Visualization;
Journal_Title :
Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on
