Improving specificity of image features for segmentation with deformable models.
Jens von BergVladimir PekarRoel TruyenSteven LobregtMichael R. KausPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2003)
Keyphrases
- deformable models
- shape prior
- medical images
- image segmentation
- image features
- volumetric images
- statistical shape
- medical image analysis
- deformable contour
- cardiac mr
- carotid artery
- image analysis
- object segmentation
- atlas construction
- external force
- object boundaries
- level set
- shape modeling
- segmentation algorithm
- snake model
- neural network
- active appearance models
- computer vision
- auxiliary variables
- object recognition
- anatomical structures
- mr images
- graph cuts
- segmentation method
- active contour model
- shape constraints
- segmentation result
- image processing
- surface meshes
- medical imaging
- fully automatic
- pattern recognition
- multiscale
- energy functional
- edge detection
- magnetic resonance images
- shape variations
- level set method
- feature vectors