A variable background active contour model for automatic detection of thyroid nodules in ultrasound images.
Michalis A. SavelonasDimitrios E. MaroulisDimitrios K. IakovidisStavros A. KarkanisNikolaos DimitropoulosPublished in: ICIP (1) (2005)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- automatic detection
- active contour model
- active contours
- chest ct
- segmentation method
- energy minimization
- curve evolution
- region growing
- edge detection
- ct images
- level set method
- shape prior
- lung cancer
- normal tissue
- nodule detection
- ct scans
- lung nodules
- image segmentation
- magnetic resonance
- x ray
- energy functional
- computer aided diagnosis
- level set
- pulmonary nodules