Segmentation and characterization of masses in breast ultrasound images using active contour.
Abdul Kadir JumaatWan Eny Zarina W. Abd. RahmanArsmah IbrahimRozi MahmudPublished in: ICSIPA (2011)
Keyphrases
- gvf snake
- breast ultrasound images
- active contours
- gradient vector flow
- balloon snake
- multiscale
- active contour model
- level set
- segmentation method
- ultrasound image segmentation
- image segmentation
- breast ultrasound
- shape prior
- contour extraction
- object boundaries
- region competition
- energy functional
- force field
- external force
- snake model
- curve evolution
- vector field
- level set method
- region growing
- gradient flow
- energy function
- cardiac ultrasound images
- computer vision
- segmented images
- perceptual grouping
- magnetic resonance images
- markov random field