Customized hybrid level sets for automatic lung segmentation in chest x-ray images.
Sridharan KamalakannanSameer K. AntaniL. Rodney LongGeorge R. ThomaPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2013)
Keyphrases
- level set
- x ray images
- chest radiographs
- x ray
- medical images
- lung nodules
- shape prior
- active contours
- level set method
- image segmentation
- partial differential equations
- energy functional
- energy function
- variational framework
- curve evolution
- level set based segmentation
- ct scans
- fracture detection
- single view
- geodesic active contours
- ct images
- variational segmentation
- fully automatic
- distance maps
- lung cancer
- level set framework
- image segmentation methods
- level set evolution
- mumford shah functional
- connected components
- computed tomography
- region competition
- image processing
- level lines
- mr images
- anatomical structures
- medical imaging
- object boundaries
- active shape model