Probability density difference-based active contour for ultrasound image segmentation.
Bo LiuHeng-Da ChengJianhua HuangJiawei TianXianglong TangJiafeng LiuPublished in: Pattern Recognit. (2010)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- probability density
- ultrasound image segmentation
- segmentation method
- level set method
- image segmentation
- density estimation
- level set
- active contour model
- gaussian mixture model
- random variables
- shape prior
- object boundaries
- probability density function
- probability distribution
- gaussian mixture
- energy functional
- curve evolution
- density function
- region growing
- mixture model
- energy function
- gradient vector flow
- maximum likelihood estimation
- graphical models
- object segmentation
- segmented images
- em algorithm
- feature vectors
- snake model
- objective function