TY - JOUR A2 - Crisan, Maria AU - Mitrea, Alexandru Ioan AU - Badea, Radu AU - Mitrea, Delia AU - Nedevschi, Sergiu AU - Mitrea, Paulina AU - Ivan, Dumitru Mircea AU - Gurzău, Octavian Mircia PY - 2012 DA - 2012/03/04 TI - Iterative Methods for Obtaining Energy-Minimizing Parametric Snakes with Applications to Medical Imaging SP - 918510 VL - 2012 AB - After a brief survey on the parametric deformable models, we developan iterative method based on the finite difference schemes in order to obtain energy-minimizing snakes. We estimate the approximation error, the residue, and the truncature error related to the corresponding algorithm,then we discuss its convergence, consistency, and stability. Some aspectsregarding the prosthetic sugical methods that implement the above numerical methods are also pointed out. SN - 1748-670X UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/918510 DO - 10.1155/2012/918510 JF - Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation KW - ER -