Active contours driven by localizing region and edge-based intensity fitting energy with application to segmentation of the left ventricle in cardiac CT images.
Yan ZhouWeiren ShiWei ChenYong-Lin ChenYing LiLi-Wen TanDai-Qiang ChenPublished in: Neurocomputing (2015)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- region based active contours
- left ventricle
- anatomical knowledge
- ct images
- level set
- shape prior
- image segmentation
- fully automatic
- active contour model
- segmentation method
- multislice
- object boundaries
- level set method
- medical images
- energy function
- vessel segmentation
- energy functional
- computed tomography
- medical imaging
- ct scans
- computer tomography
- left ventricular
- segmentation result
- image analysis
- cardiac cycle
- curve evolution
- region of interest
- segmentation algorithm
- image intensity
- semi automatic
- short axis
- partial differential equations
- shape model
- markov random field