Whole vertebral bone segmentation method with a statistical intensity-shape model based approach.
Shouhei HanaokaKarl D. FritscherBenedikt SchulerYoshitaka MasutaniNaoto HayashiKuni OhtomoRainer SchubertPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2011)
Keyphrases
- segmentation method
- shape model
- energy function
- shape prior
- image intensity
- intensity information
- graph cuts
- active contours
- level set segmentation
- region growing
- image segmentation
- energy minimization
- video segmentation
- object segmentation
- active shape model
- prior shape knowledge
- anatomical structures
- active contour model
- segmentation algorithm
- markov random field
- active appearance models
- automated segmentation
- superpixels
- shape variations
- three dimensional
- object boundaries
- statistical shape model
- watershed segmentation
- regularization term
- level set
- statistical models
- energy functional
- shape space
- d objects