Pulmonary Blood Vessels and Nodules Segmentation via Vessel Energy Function and Radius-Variable Sphere Model.
Qingxiang ZhuHongkai XiongXiaoqian JiangPublished in: HISB (2012)
Keyphrases
- energy function
- blood vessels
- graph cuts
- energy minimization
- segmentation method
- image segmentation
- markov random field
- level set
- vessel segmentation
- image intensity
- retinal images
- global minimum
- cost function
- segmentation algorithm
- shape model
- ct images
- energy functional
- low contrast
- smoothness constraint
- active contours
- region growing
- mrf model
- hopfield neural network
- optic disc
- similarity measure