Multi-shape graph cuts with neighbor prior constraints and its application to lung segmentation from a chest CT volume.
Keita NakagomiAkinobu ShimizuHidefumi KobatakeMasahiro YakamiKoji FujimotoKaori TogashiPublished in: Medical Image Anal. (2013)
Keyphrases
- shape constraints
- graph cuts
- ct volume
- shape prior
- ct data
- segmentation algorithm
- automatic segmentation
- ct images
- x ray
- energy function
- lung cancer
- chest radiographs
- shape model
- computed tomography
- energy minimization
- object segmentation
- object boundaries
- markov random field
- level set
- interactive segmentation
- image segmentation
- mean shift
- deformable models
- interactive image segmentation
- medical images
- shape variations
- energy minimization framework
- ct scans
- graph based image segmentation
- random walker
- intraoperative
- active contours
- active shape model
- graph cut segmentation
- medical imaging
- accurate segmentation
- patient specific
- maximum a posteriori
- anatomical structures
- shape representation
- three dimensional