Active Contours Guided by Echogenicity and Texture for Delineation of Thyroid Nodules in Ultrasound Images.
Michalis A. SavelonasDimitrios K. IakovidisIoannis LegakisDimitris MaroulisPublished in: IEEE Trans. Inf. Technol. Biomed. (2009)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- active contour segmentation
- active contours
- texture image segmentation
- segmentation method
- speckle noise
- object boundaries
- active contour model
- edge detection
- level set
- texture analysis
- texture information
- ct images
- region growing
- image segmentation
- texture features
- carotid artery
- lung cancer
- level set method
- gray level
- energy function
- texture images
- shape prior
- superpixels
- curve evolution
- image structure
- normal tissue
- multiscale