A phase-based active contour model for segmentation of breast ultrasound images.
Lingyun CaiYuanyuan WangPublished in: BMEI (2013)
Keyphrases
- active contour model
- gvf snake
- breast ultrasound images
- gradient vector flow
- segmentation method
- ultrasound image segmentation
- active contours
- region growing
- snake model
- shape prior
- curve evolution
- multiscale
- image segmentation
- energy functional
- energy minimization
- level set method
- force field
- contour extraction
- vector field
- level set
- external force
- energy function
- object boundaries
- superpixels
- edge preserving
- edge map
- diffusion process
- improved algorithm
- image analysis