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    Copyright (c) 2014, Dorothy Lui, Christian Scharfenberger, 
                        Khalil Fergani, Alexander Wong, and David Clausi,
                        University of Waterloo, Vision and Image Processing 
                        (VIP) Research Group, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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    Enhanced Decoupled Active Contour - Code
    =============

    This software pertains to the research described in the TIP 2014 paper:

    Lui, D.; Scharfenberger, C.; Fergani, K.; Wong, A.; Clausi, D.A.;,
    "Enhanced Decoupled Active Contour Using Structural and Textural Variation 
    Energy Functionals", In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 23, no.2,
    pp.855-869, 2014

    If you are using this code in your publication, please cite our paper.

    This software is provided for research purposes only, with absolutely no 
    warranty or suggested support. When downloading and/or running the code,
    the user agrees to the terms of this license.