Automatic brain cropping enhancement using active contours initialized by a PCNN.
Murali Murugavel Swathanthira KumarJohn M. Sullivan Jr.Published in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2009)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- level set
- active contour model
- object boundaries
- image segmentation
- segmentation method
- shape prior
- energy functional
- level set method
- geodesic active contours
- human brain
- pulse coupled neural networks
- gradient vector flow
- energy function
- curve evolution
- active contour segmentation
- geometric active contours
- external force
- image processing
- external forces
- texture image segmentation
- fully automatic
- force field
- global minimizers
- semi automatic