Segmentation of kidney from ultrasound images based on texture and shape priors.
Jun XieYifeng JiangHung-Tat TsuiPublished in: IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging (2005)
Keyphrases
- shape prior
- ultrasound images
- active contours
- active contour segmentation
- level set
- deformable models
- intensity information
- image segmentation
- graph cuts
- object boundaries
- ultrasound image segmentation
- variational segmentation
- segmentation method
- object segmentation
- shape model
- level set based segmentation
- carotid artery
- medical ultrasound
- segmentation algorithm
- energy function
- speckle noise
- global optimization
- active shape model
- active contour model
- curve evolution
- shape variations
- ultrasound imaging
- edge detection
- prior knowledge
- texture segmentation
- user interaction
- bayesian framework
- gray level
- speckle reduction
- multiresolution
- energy functional
- texture analysis
- statistical models
- higher order
- segmentation result
- multiscale
- image processing
- texture images
- pairwise
- image analysis
- texture features
- multi view