Semi-automatic Cervical Cancer Segmentation Using Active Contours without Edges.
Othmane El MeslouhiMoustapha KardouchiHakim AllaliTaoufiq GadiPublished in: SITIS (2009)
Keyphrases
- semi automatic
- active contours
- level set
- shape prior
- initial contour
- cervical cancer
- segmentation method
- fully automatic
- image segmentation
- cardiac ultrasound images
- gradient vector flow
- variational segmentation
- texture image segmentation
- geodesic active contours
- energy functional
- energy function
- active contour model
- active contour segmentation
- geometric active contours
- object boundaries
- region based active contours
- snake model
- level set method
- level set evolution
- curve evolution
- external force
- gold standard
- image segmentation methods
- partial differential equations
- gradient flow
- variational framework
- medical images
- edge detector
- object segmentation
- edge map
- computer aided diagnosis
- region growing
- piecewise constant
- machine learning
- narrow band
- multiscale
- image gradient
- minimal path
- segmentation algorithm
- prior shape knowledge
- image processing
- image analysis
- graph cuts
- energy minimization
- edge information