Segmentation of embryonic and fetal 3D ultrasound images based on pixel intensity distributions and shape priors.
Sonia DahdouhElsa D. AngeliniGilles GrangeIsabelle BlochPublished in: Medical Image Anal. (2015)
Keyphrases
- intensity distribution
- shape prior
- segmentation method
- segmentation algorithm
- level set
- pixel intensities
- robust segmentation
- graph cuts
- active contours
- graph cut segmentation
- input image
- shape model
- image segmentation
- deformable models
- object boundaries
- energy function
- pixel level
- ultrasound images
- object segmentation
- pixel wise
- image pixels
- intensity values
- edge detection
- image intensity
- image pairs
- edge information
- image data
- prior knowledge
- magnetic resonance images
- pixel values
- automatic segmentation
- global optimization
- gaussian distribution
- bayesian framework
- statistical models
- mr images
- image regions
- image analysis
- multiscale
- region growing
- fully automatic
- mri data
- user interaction
- image registration
- feature vectors