Gallbladder shape extraction from ultrasound images using active contour models.
Marcin CiecholewskiJakub ChocholowiczPublished in: Comput. Biol. Medicine (2013)
Keyphrases
- active contour model
- ultrasound images
- shape prior
- active contours
- energy functional
- force field
- gradient vector flow
- speckle noise
- segmentation method
- shape model
- energy minimization
- edge detection
- curve evolution
- region growing
- level set method
- speckle reduction
- object boundaries
- graph cuts
- prostate segmentation
- shape analysis
- vector field
- level set
- shape representation
- edge detector
- active shape model
- texture information
- deformable models
- image segmentation