pSnakes: A new radial active contour model and its application in the segmentation of the left ventricle from echocardiographic images.
Auzuir Ripardo de AlexandriaPaulo César CortezJessyca Almeida BessaJohn Hebert da Silva FelixJosé Sebastião de AbreuVictor Hugo C. de AlbuquerquePublished in: Comput. Methods Programs Biomed. (2014)
Keyphrases
- echocardiographic images
- left ventricle
- active contour model
- ultrasound images
- active contours
- fully automatic
- segmentation method
- energy minimization
- region growing
- short axis
- image segmentation
- shape prior
- left ventricular
- energy functional
- image analysis
- heart motion
- level set
- image data
- particle filter
- edge detection
- optical flow
- image sequences