Prostate segmentation in ultrasound images with deformable shape priors.
Lixin GongSayan Dev PathakDavid R. HaynorPaul S. ChoYongmin KimPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image-Guided Procedures (2003)
Keyphrases
- shape prior
- ultrasound images
- prostate segmentation
- speckle noise
- deformable models
- speckle reduction
- segmentation result
- object segmentation
- graph cuts
- medical images
- image segmentation
- active contours
- image analysis
- level set
- energy function
- shape variations
- active shape model
- shape model
- statistical models
- prior knowledge
- energy functional
- segmentation algorithm
- sar images
- markov random field
- level set method
- active appearance models
- global optimization
- magnetic resonance
- synthetic aperture radar
- noise reduction
- intensity information
- denoising
- edge preserving
- mutual information
- edge detection
- segmentation method