A Shape-Based Approach to the Segmentation of Medical Imagery Using Level Sets.
Andy TsaiAnthony J. YezziWilliam M. Wells IIIClare M. TempanyDewey TuckerAyres C. FanW. Eric L. GrimsonAlan S. WillskyPublished in: IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging (2003)
Keyphrases
- level set
- medical imagery
- shape prior
- energy functional
- region based segmentation
- variational framework
- level set framework
- active contours
- level set method
- distance maps
- partial differential equations
- shape constraints
- image segmentation
- level set based segmentation
- medical image analysis
- curve evolution
- geodesic active contours
- level set evolution
- anatomical structures
- geometric active contours
- blood vessels
- energy function
- object segmentation
- organ segmentation
- image sequences
- shape model
- adaptive thresholding
- image processing
- image analysis
- region competition
- piecewise constant
- imaging modalities
- computer vision
- deformable models
- denoising
- medical imaging
- image data
- carotid artery
- multiscale
- object boundaries