Real-time 3D medical structure segmentation using fast evolving active contours.
Xiaotao WangQiang WangZhihui HaoKuanhong XuPing GuoHaibing RenWooyoung JangJung-Bae KimPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2014)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- level set
- shape prior
- segmentation method
- image segmentation
- gradient vector flow
- cardiac ultrasound images
- geodesic active contours
- variational segmentation
- active contour model
- energy functional
- active contour segmentation
- energy function
- object boundaries
- external force
- geometric active contours
- level set method
- snake model
- texture image segmentation
- object segmentation
- level set evolution
- region based active contours
- image segmentation methods
- medical imaging
- partial differential equations
- minimal surface
- region growing
- gradient flow
- curve evolution
- force field
- external forces
- shape model
- deformable models
- segmentation algorithm
- multiscale
- image analysis
- medical images
- graph cuts
- variational framework
- shape representation
- image restoration
- global minimizers
- fully automatic