Closing of interrupted vascular segmentations: an automatic approach based on shortest paths and level sets.
Nils Daniel ForkertAlexander Schmidt-RichbergDennis SäringTill IlliesJens FiehlerHeinz HandelsPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2010)
Keyphrases
- level set
- shortest path
- image segmentation
- active contours
- image segmentation methods
- shortest path algorithm
- connected components
- curve evolution
- partial differential equations
- level set method
- road network
- distance maps
- shape prior
- energy function
- finding the shortest path
- minimal surface
- energy functional
- level lines
- path length
- fully automatic
- travel time
- strongly connected components
- medical images
- variational methods
- geodesic active contours
- computer vision
- object segmentation
- deformable models
- optimal path
- energy minimization
- object boundaries
- blood vessels