Airway segmentation from 3D chest CT volumes based on volume of interest using gradient vector flow.
Qier MengTakayuki KitasakaMasahiro OdaJunji UenoKensaku MoriPublished in: CoRR (2017)
Keyphrases
- gradient vector flow
- active contours
- chest ct
- active contour model
- edge preserving
- vector field
- gvf snake
- external force
- diffusion process
- automatic detection
- shape prior
- level set
- segmentation method
- force field
- object boundaries
- smoothness constraint
- improved algorithm
- level set method
- three dimensional
- image segmentation
- segmentation algorithm
- grey level
- optical flow
- image analysis
- image restoration
- computed tomography
- energy functional
- x ray
- higher order
- region growing
- multiscale