Method and algorithm for mass segmentation in mammograms based on the minimisation of energy and active contour model.
Khalid El FahssiAbdenbi AbenaouSaid Jai-AndaloussiAbderrahim SekkakiPublished in: ISMICT (2014)
Keyphrases
- segmentation method
- segmentation algorithm
- active contour model
- dynamic programming
- improved algorithm
- energy function
- deformable contour
- k means
- minimal path
- probabilistic model
- level set framework
- prior information
- similarity measure
- region growing
- energy minimization
- boundary extraction
- image segmentation
- object segmentation
- curve evolution
- active contours
- shape prior
- pairwise
- snake model
- multiscale segmentation
- em algorithm
- particle swarm optimization
- level set method
- piecewise constant
- geodesic active contours
- medical images