A robust medical image segmentation method using KL distance and local neighborhood information.
Qian ZhengZhentai LuWei YangMinghui ZhangQianjin FengWufan ChenPublished in: Comput. Biol. Medicine (2013)
Keyphrases
- segmentation method
- medical images
- neighborhood information
- medical imaging
- image segmentation
- medical diagnosis
- robust statistical
- region growing
- object segmentation
- active contour model
- medical image analysis
- ct images
- brain images
- mr images
- automated segmentation
- region of interest
- segmentation algorithm
- magnetic resonance
- imaging modalities
- anatomical structures
- medical image registration
- magnetic resonance imaging
- deformable models
- active contours
- clinical applications
- magnetic resonance images
- image intensity
- energy function
- segmentation result
- medical image retrieval
- euclidean distance
- shape prior
- computed tomography
- distance measure
- multiresolution
- multiscale