Segmentation of cardiac tagged MR images using a snake model based on hybrid gradient vector flow.
Zhuo YuQian WangWei XiongChengde ZhangHuaifei HuPublished in: Multim. Tools Appl. (2018)
Keyphrases
- gradient vector flow
- active contours
- tagged mr images
- active contour model
- gvf snake
- left ventricle
- external force
- vector field
- long axis
- edge preserving
- snake model
- diffusion process
- motion tracking
- object boundaries
- level set
- improved algorithm
- shape prior
- force field
- smoothness constraint
- segmentation method
- image segmentation
- level set method
- fully automatic
- edge map
- multiscale
- energy functional
- left ventricular
- magnetic resonance imaging
- region growing
- energy minimization
- short axis
- tagged mri
- image analysis
- three dimensional