Automatic initialization of active contours in ultrasound images of breast cancer.
Khwunta KirimasthongAnnupan RodtookWanrudee LohitvisateStanislav S. MakhanovPublished in: Pattern Anal. Appl. (2018)
Keyphrases
- breast cancer
- ultrasound images
- active contours
- active contour segmentation
- carotid artery
- force field
- speckle noise
- active contour model
- logistic regression
- object boundaries
- image segmentation
- shape prior
- energy functional
- edge detection
- level set
- segmentation method
- energy function
- level set method
- gradient vector flow
- fully automated
- appearance model
- deformable models