Active contours driven by Cuckoo Search strategy for brain tumour images segmentation.
Elisee Ilunga-MbuyambaJorge Mario Cruz-DuarteJuan Gabriel Aviña-CervantesCarlos Rodrigo Correa-CelyDirk LindnerClaire ChalopinPublished in: Expert Syst. Appl. (2016)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- segmentation method
- search strategy
- cardiac ultrasound images
- level set
- geodesic active contours
- image segmentation methods
- image segmentation
- prior shape knowledge
- shape prior
- active contour model
- segmentation algorithm
- region based active contours
- active contour segmentation
- energy function
- search space
- search algorithm
- gradient vector flow
- level set method
- segmented images
- object boundaries
- low contrast
- energy functional
- image analysis
- image segmentation algorithm
- geometric active contours
- input image
- medical images
- curve evolution
- fully automatic
- object segmentation
- external force
- intensity distribution
- variational framework
- texture image segmentation
- shape model
- force field
- image dependent
- image processing
- narrow band
- graph cuts
- edge detection
- tubular structures
- watershed segmentation
- pixel wise
- region growing
- object detection