Segmentation of the Left Ventricle Using Active Contour Method with Gradient Vector Flow Forces in Short-Axis MRI.
Tomasz PieciakPublished in: ITIB (2012)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- gradient vector flow
- fully automatic
- segmentation method
- left ventricle
- cardiac mri
- cardiac mr images
- active contour model
- external force
- energy function
- image segmentation
- cardiac magnetic resonance
- short axis
- long axis
- level set
- force field
- gvf snake
- object boundaries
- snake model
- energy functional
- mri images
- segmentation algorithm
- medical images
- vector field
- region growing
- left ventricular
- magnetic resonance imaging
- mr images
- fully automated
- shape prior
- shape model
- image processing
- semi automatic
- smoothness constraint
- manual segmentation
- mri data
- regularization term
- level set method
- gold standard