A New Active Contours Approach for Finger Extensor Tendon Segmentation in Ultrasound Images Using Prior Knowledge and Phase Symmetry.
Nelson MartinsMalik Saad SultanDiana VeigaManuel FerreiraFilipa TeixeiraMiguel Tavares CoimbraPublished in: IEEE J. Biomed. Health Informatics (2018)
Keyphrases
- active contour segmentation
- ultrasound images
- active contours
- shape prior
- prior knowledge
- level set
- image segmentation
- object boundaries
- segmentation method
- speckle noise
- cardiac ultrasound images
- active contour model
- medical ultrasound
- gradient vector flow
- level set method
- echocardiographic images
- external force
- energy functional
- energy function
- carotid artery
- geodesic active contours
- ultrasound imaging
- object segmentation
- force field
- speckle reduction
- geometric active contours
- image analysis