A novel shape prior based segmentation of touching or overlapping ellipse-like nuclei.
Xiaorong HeQingmin LiaoPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2008)
Keyphrases
- shape prior
- segmentation method
- level set
- graph cuts
- image segmentation
- active contours
- object segmentation
- deformable models
- segmentation algorithm
- object boundaries
- shape model
- robust segmentation
- variational segmentation
- statistical shape
- energy function
- interactive segmentation
- level set segmentation
- global optimization
- statistical models
- curve evolution
- prior shape
- variational framework
- bayesian framework
- active contour model
- user interaction
- pose invariant
- chan vese
- intensity information
- shape variations
- energy functional
- region growing
- markov random field
- active shape model
- level set method
- mumford shah functional
- level set framework
- microscopic images
- computer vision
- prior information
- prior knowledge
- graph cut segmentation
- object extraction
- face recognition
- expectation maximization