3D carotid artery segmentation using shape-constrained active contours.
Xianjue HuangJun WangZhiyong LiPublished in: Comput. Biol. Medicine (2023)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- shape prior
- carotid artery
- deformable models
- external force
- level set
- geometric active contours
- energy functional
- cardiac ultrasound images
- active shape model
- object boundaries
- image segmentation
- segmentation method
- active contour model
- region growing
- ultrasound images
- segmentation result
- active contour segmentation
- gradient vector flow
- energy function
- region based active contours
- shape model
- object segmentation
- prior shape knowledge
- level set method
- tubular structures
- geodesic active contours
- graph cuts
- force field
- parametric active contours
- medical images
- manual segmentation
- image analysis
- fully automated
- partial differential equations
- prior information
- segmentation algorithm
- ground truth
- low contrast
- user interaction
- multiscale