A collaborative contour detector by gradient and active contours for ultrasound kidney images.
Kang LiJixiang GuoZhang YiPublished in: Int. J. Comput. Math. (2019)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- segmentation method
- object boundaries
- active contour model
- active contour segmentation
- geodesic active contours
- initial contour
- image gradient
- ultrasound images
- image segmentation
- level set
- image segmentation methods
- cardiac ultrasound images
- edge detection
- input image
- shape prior
- level set method
- curve evolution
- energy functional
- gradient vector flow
- image analysis
- image registration
- region based active contours
- prior shape knowledge
- geometric active contours
- force field
- segmentation algorithm
- energy function
- multiscale
- snake model
- gradient field
- fully automatic
- computer vision