Phase based distance regularized level set for the segmentation of ultrasound kidney images.
D. SelvathiS. BamaPublished in: Pattern Recognit. Lett. (2017)
Keyphrases
- anisotropic diffusion
- level set
- partial differential equations
- region based segmentation
- level set framework
- edge detection
- variational framework
- narrow band
- image segmentation methods
- image segmentation
- geodesic active contours
- level set method
- intensity inhomogeneity
- shape prior
- energy functional
- active contours
- curve evolution
- prior shape knowledge
- segmentation method
- energy function
- segmentation algorithm
- level set based segmentation
- shape constraints
- piecewise constant
- signed distance
- segmented images
- level set evolution
- variational formulation
- segmentation result
- input image
- mumford shah functional
- prior shape
- region competition
- piecewise smooth
- variational level set method
- fully automatic
- region growing
- distance map
- image processing
- medical image segmentation
- accurate segmentation
- automatic segmentation
- distance transform
- image segmentation algorithm
- medical imaging
- distance function
- model based segmentation