An improved graph cut segmentation method for cervical lymph nodes on sonograms and its relationship with node's shape assessment.
Junhua ZhangYuanyuan WangXinling ShiPublished in: Comput. Medical Imaging Graph. (2009)
Keyphrases
- segmentation method
- shape prior
- graph cuts
- energy function
- segmentation algorithm
- region growing
- lymph nodes
- shape model
- image segmentation
- object segmentation
- automatic segmentation
- markov random field
- energy minimization
- active contours
- shape representation
- segmentation result
- object boundaries
- interactive segmentation
- energy functional
- superpixels
- shape variations
- active contour model
- image intensity
- automated segmentation
- shape matching
- automatic detection
- ct data
- mean shift
- level set method
- active shape model
- shape descriptors
- segmentation accuracy
- lung cancer
- manual segmentation
- statistical shape model
- regularization term
- deformable models
- ct images