An expectation-maximization approach to joint curve evolution for medical image segmentation.
Mahshid FarzinfarEam Khwang TeohZhong XuePublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2010)
Keyphrases
- curve evolution
- medical image segmentation
- expectation maximization
- level set
- em algorithm
- image segmentation
- active contour model
- energy minimization
- level set method
- active contours
- partial differential equations
- shape prior
- energy functional
- object boundaries
- probabilistic model
- generative model
- parameter estimation
- maximum likelihood
- maximum a posteriori
- multiscale
- image processing
- global optimization
- energy function