An adaptive approach to centerline extraction for CT colonography using MAP-EM segmentation and distance field.
Hao PengLihong C. LiHuafeng WangHao HanPerry J. PickhardtZhengrong LiangPublished in: Medical Imaging: Computer-Aided Diagnosis (2014)
Keyphrases
- ct colonography
- computer aided detection
- image segmentation
- tubular structures
- segmentation algorithm
- maximum a posteriori
- level set
- segmentation method
- multiscale
- minimal path
- expectation maximization
- medical images
- polyp detection
- hough transform
- breast cancer
- shape prior
- medical image processing
- energy function
- information extraction
- image analysis
- region growing
- ct scans
- accurate segmentation
- markov random field