A multi-scale approach to mass segmentation using active contour models.
Hongwei YuLihua LiWeidong XuWei LiuPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2010)
Keyphrases
- active contour model
- multiscale
- segmentation method
- active contours
- gvf snake
- region growing
- shape prior
- multiscale segmentation
- image segmentation
- boundary extraction
- gradient vector flow
- level set
- region based segmentation
- curve evolution
- minimal path
- energy functional
- energy minimization
- edge detection
- energy function
- mumford shah functional
- scale space
- segmentation algorithm
- coarse to fine
- natural images
- gradient flow
- external force
- level set method
- object segmentation
- level set framework
- dce mri
- endpoints
- force field
- optic disk
- object boundaries
- image analysis
- shape model
- tubular structures
- graph cuts
- medical images
- global minimizers
- piecewise constant
- image processing
- global optimization
- vector field
- deformable models
- denoising