Variable Background Active Contour Model for Computer-Aided Delineation of Nodules in Thyroid Ultrasound Images.
Dimitrios E. MaroulisMichalis A. SavelonasDimitrios K. IakovidisStavros A. KarkanisNikolaos DimitropoulosPublished in: IEEE Trans. Inf. Technol. Biomed. (2007)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- computer aided
- active contour model
- pulmonary nodules
- computer aided diagnosis
- segmentation method
- region growing
- active contours
- edge detection
- computer assisted
- energy minimization
- lung nodules
- computer aided design
- level set method
- segmentation algorithm
- image analysis
- shape prior
- image segmentation
- ct images
- ct scans
- level set
- lung cancer
- medical images
- intraoperative
- energy functional
- graph cuts
- computer vision
- cad systems