Unsupervised 3D Prostate Segmentation Based on Diffusion-Weighted Imaging MRI Using Active Contour Models with a Shape Prior.
Xin LiuMasoom A. HaiderImam Samil YetikPublished in: J. Electr. Comput. Eng. (2011)
Keyphrases
- active contour model
- shape prior
- active contours
- segmentation result
- white matter
- mr images
- intensity distribution
- deformable models
- magnetic resonance imaging
- curve evolution
- image segmentation
- object boundaries
- segmentation method
- graph cuts
- shape model
- level set
- medical images
- object segmentation
- magnetic resonance images
- mri data
- level set method
- region growing
- prior knowledge
- active shape model
- energy minimization
- user interaction
- energy function
- manual segmentation
- segmentation algorithm
- shape representation
- global optimization
- medical imaging
- energy functional
- medical image analysis
- shape variations
- bayesian framework
- fully automatic
- automatic segmentation
- prostate cancer
- statistical models
- parameter estimation
- prior information
- human brain
- image data