A novel spinal vertebrae segmentation framework combining geometric flow and shape prior with level set method.
Poay Hoon LimUlas BagciOmer ArasYan WangLi BaiPublished in: ISBI (2012)
Keyphrases
- level set
- shape prior
- level set method
- active contours
- variational framework
- image segmentation
- chan vese
- deformable models
- level set segmentation
- parametric active contours
- level set framework
- variational formulation
- curve evolution
- energy functional
- signed distance function
- prior shape knowledge
- mumford shah functional
- object segmentation
- prior shape
- object boundaries
- robust segmentation
- graph cuts
- active contour model
- segmentation result
- level set evolution
- segmentation method
- region based segmentation
- shape model
- piecewise constant
- mumford shah
- segmentation algorithm
- active shape model
- geodesic active contours
- energy function
- topology preserving
- shape representation
- gradient flow
- multiscale
- prior knowledge
- narrow band
- shape variations
- variational methods
- shape analysis
- partial differential equations
- hamilton jacobi
- evolution equation
- global optimization
- graph cut segmentation
- higher order