Novel and powerful 3D adaptive crisp active contour method applied in the segmentation of CT lung images.
Pedro Pedrosa Rebouças FilhoPaulo César CortezAntônio Carlos da Silva BarrosVictor Hugo C. de AlbuquerqueJoão Manuel R. S. TavaresPublished in: Medical Image Anal. (2017)
Keyphrases
- segmentation method
- active contours
- segmentation algorithm
- image slices
- image segmentation
- energy function
- cardiac ultrasound images
- level set
- region growing
- level set framework
- shape prior
- image regions
- image segmentation methods
- geodesic active contours
- edge detection
- region of interest
- active contour model
- image analysis
- snake model
- segmentation result
- energy functional
- medical images
- lymph nodes
- gradient vector flow
- narrow band
- image registration
- image gradient
- lung cancer
- ct scans
- tubular structures
- region based segmentation
- shape constraints
- minimal path