Heuristic Initialization for Active Contour Models in CT/MRI Image Processing.
Hao LiuHongbo QianNing DaiJianning ZhaoPublished in: Int. J. Image Graph. (2015)
Keyphrases
- active contour model
- image processing
- medical imaging
- medical images
- magnetic resonance imaging
- active contours
- mri images
- external force
- image segmentation
- force field
- magnetic resonance images
- segmentation method
- region growing
- curve evolution
- deformable models
- energy minimization
- ct images
- level set method
- mri data
- gradient vector flow
- dce mri
- x ray
- high resolution
- edge detection
- multislice
- multiscale
- image registration
- image analysis
- image enhancement
- imaging modalities
- dynamic programming
- anatomical structures
- mr images
- gradient flow
- minimal path
- denoising
- shape prior
- computer vision
- energy function
- total variation
- pairwise
- shape analysis
- image denoising
- image restoration