Variational Segmentation of the White and Gray Matter in the Spinal Cord Using a Shape Prior.
Antal HorváthSimon PezoldMatthias WeigelKatrin ParmarOliver BieriPhilippe C. CattinPublished in: CSI@MICCAI (2016)
Keyphrases
- variational segmentation
- spinal cord
- shape prior
- magnetic resonance images
- gray matter
- white matter
- deformable models
- medical images
- active contours
- brain tissue
- graph cuts
- level set
- mr images
- shape model
- object boundaries
- image segmentation
- medical imaging
- medical image analysis
- segmentation method
- mri data
- energy function
- user interaction
- brain mr images
- shape representation
- magnetic resonance imaging
- prior knowledge
- shape variations
- active shape model
- segmentation algorithm
- anatomical structures
- statistical models
- global optimization
- energy functional
- bayesian framework
- high resolution
- human brain
- structural analysis
- prior information
- partial differential equations
- intensity distribution
- markov random field
- automatically segmenting
- image processing