Active contours driven by local and global intensity fitting energy with application to brain MR image segmentation.
Li WangChunming LiQuan-Sen SunDe-Shen XiaChiu-Yen KaoPublished in: Comput. Medical Imaging Graph. (2009)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- region based active contours
- brain mr image segmentation
- level set
- active contour model
- object boundaries
- image segmentation
- narrow band
- gradient flow
- gradient vector flow
- energy function
- shape prior
- energy minimization
- segmentation method
- level set method
- shape analysis
- force field
- external forces
- energy functional
- geometric active contours
- intensity inhomogeneity
- geodesic active contours
- least squares