Automated segmentation method for the 3D ultrasound carotid image based on geometrically deformable model with automatic merge function.
Xiang LiZigang WangHongbing LuZhengrong LiangPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2002)
Keyphrases
- segmentation method
- deformable models
- image segmentation
- shape prior
- automated segmentation
- ultrasound images
- carotid artery
- region growing
- active contours
- medical image analysis
- medical images
- object boundaries
- active contour model
- object segmentation
- segmented images
- superpixels
- segmentation algorithm
- semi automatic
- fully automatic
- computer vision
- fully automated
- energy function
- level set method
- image analysis
- soft tissue
- shape variations
- active shape model
- segmentation result
- watershed segmentation
- surface meshes
- graph cuts
- machine learning