Active contour driven by local divergence energies for ultrasound image segmentation.

Published 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