Text detection is fundamental to video information retrieval and indexing. Existing methods cannot handle well those texts with different contrast or embedded in a complex backgro...
—In this paper, we present a robust and accurate algorithm for interactive image segmentation. The level set method is clearly advantageous for image objects with a complex topol...
This paper investigates a novel computational approach to thyroid tissue characterization in ultrasound images. It is based on the hypothesis that tissues in thyroid ultrasound im...
Michalis A. Savelonas, Dimitrios K. Iakovidis, Nik...
In this paper, the automatic medical annotation task of the 2007 CLEF cross-language image retrieval campaign (ImageCLEF) is described. The paper focusses on the images used, the ...
Thomas Deselaers, Thomas Martin Deserno, Henning M...
Statistical appearance models are valuable tools in medical image segmentation. Current methods elegantly incorporate global shape and appearance, but can not cope with local appe...