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One of the basic problems of scene analysis is that of detecting contours of objects present in a given image. Much of the field of Digital Image Processing has been devoted to the detection of these contours. The procedures for their detection are often referred to as “curve finders.”

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Wechsler, H. (1977). Curve Finder. In: Automatic Detection of Rib Contours in Chest Radiographs. Interdisciplinary Systems Research / Interdisziplinäre Systemforschung. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5767-3_5

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