Active contour driven by local divergence energies for ultrasound image segmentation.
Jianjun YuanPublished in: IET Image Process. (2013)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- ultrasound image segmentation
- segmentation method
- level set method
- energy function
- level set
- image segmentation
- region competition
- region based active contours
- shape prior
- active contour model
- object boundaries
- energy minimization
- geometric active contours
- region growing
- global minimizers
- graph cuts
- level set evolution
- gradient flows
- markov random field
- gradient vector flow
- energy functional
- force field
- narrow band
- superpixels
- shape model
- curve evolution
- object segmentation
- higher order
- segmented images
- snake model
- global minimum
- image gradient
- gradient flow
- image processing
- shape representation
- multiscale
- cardiac ultrasound images