New Region-Scalable Discriminant and Fitting Energy Functional for Driving Geometric Active Contours in Medical Image Segmentation.
Xuchu WangYanmin NiuLiwen TanShao-Xiang ZhangPublished in: Comput. Math. Methods Medicine (2014)
Keyphrases
- medical image segmentation
- geometric active contours
- energy functional
- curve evolution
- level set method
- level set
- active contours
- image segmentation
- image structure
- evolution equation
- active contour model
- partial differential equations
- gradient flow
- medical images
- regularization term
- variational formulation
- shape prior
- energy function
- region growing
- object boundaries
- mumford shah functional
- energy minimization
- medical imaging
- segmentation method
- edge map
- input image
- image processing
- computer vision
- natural images
- least squares
- image denoising
- gradient vector flow
- cost function
- object recognition
- feature extraction