Optimization of active-contour model parameters using genetic algorithms: segmentation of breast lesions in mammograms.
Yuan XuScott C. NeuChester J. OrnesJanis F. OwensJack SklanskyDaniel J. ValentinoPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2002)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- level set
- digital mammograms
- shape prior
- breast tissue
- region based active contours
- computer aided diagnosis
- cardiac ultrasound images
- segmentation method
- image segmentation
- variational segmentation
- gradient vector flow
- pectoral muscle
- energy functional
- object boundaries
- breast mri
- breast cancer
- geodesic active contours
- snake model
- energy function
- active contour model
- computer aided detection
- medical images
- active contour segmentation
- computer aided
- level set method
- medical imaging
- curve evolution
- external force
- initial contour
- dce mri
- image segmentation methods
- geometric active contours
- level set framework
- model for image segmentation
- narrow band
- image analysis
- level set evolution
- prior shape
- region growing
- object segmentation
- segmentation algorithm
- benign and malignant
- textural features
- partial differential equations
- cad systems
- mumford shah functional
- lung nodules
- shape constraints
- graph cuts
- gradient flow
- chan vese
- variational framework
- multiscale
- mumford shah
- force field
- global minimizers
- object shape
- ultrasound images