Segmentation of Medical Ultrasound Images using Active Contours.
Oleg V. MichailovichAllen R. TannenbaumPublished in: ICIP (5) (2007)
Keyphrases
- active contour segmentation
- ultrasound images
- active contours
- level set
- segmentation method
- medical ultrasound
- shape prior
- object boundaries
- image segmentation
- speckle noise
- active contour model
- cardiac ultrasound images
- echocardiographic images
- gradient vector flow
- medical imaging
- energy function
- energy functional
- carotid artery
- geodesic active contours
- edge detection
- level set method
- geometric active contours
- texture image segmentation
- speckle reduction
- ultrasound imaging
- computer vision
- curve evolution