This paper addresses the problem of lip segmentation in color space, which is a crucial issue to the success of a lip-reading system. We present a new segmentation approach to lip ...
This paper describes a segmentation technique to automatically extract the myocardium in 4 0 cardiac M R images for quantitative cardiac analysis and the diagnosis of patients. Th...
Marie-Pierre Jolly, Nicolae Duta, Gareth Funka-Lea
Global region-based active contours, like the Chan-Vese model, often make strong assumptions on the intensity distributions of the searched object and background, preventing their ...
This paper presents a semi-automatic method for tracking the mitral valve leaflet in transesophageal echocardiography. The algorithm requires a manual initialization and then segme...
Fitting of the chin is an essential part of facial model fitting systems. Many previous approaches to chin fitting have used active contour models or snakes. However, achieving su...