Automated Snake Initialization for the Segmentation of the Prostate in Ultrasound Images.
Shahryar RahnamayanHamid R. TizhooshMagdy M. A. SalamaPublished in: ICIAR (2005)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- echocardiographic images
- medical ultrasound
- ultrasound imaging
- carotid artery
- active contour segmentation
- edge detection
- segmentation method
- prostate gland
- automatic initialization
- speckle noise
- external force
- ultrasound image segmentation
- image segmentation
- speckle reduction
- energy function
- automated segmentation
- active contours
- level set
- snake model
- segmentation algorithm
- automated analysis
- region growing
- medical images
- gradient vector flow
- prostate segmentation
- computer vision
- shape prior
- image guidance
- fully automated
- volume data
- ct scans
- medical imaging
- fully automatic
- multiscale
- edge detector