Automatic liver contour segmentation using GVF snake.
Fan LiuBinsheng ZhaoPeter KijewskiMichelle S. GinsbergLiang WangLawrence H. SchwartzPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2004)
Keyphrases
- gradient vector flow
- gvf snake
- active contours
- active contour model
- contour extraction
- multiscale
- image segmentation
- level set
- vector field
- snake model
- segmentation method
- fully automatic
- external force
- shape prior
- level set method
- contour detection
- smoothness constraint
- object boundaries
- diffusion process
- force field
- edge preserving
- improved algorithm
- segmentation algorithm
- region growing
- energy function
- edge map
- level set evolution
- image gradient
- shape variations
- perceptual grouping
- super resolution
- curve evolution
- image restoration
- energy functional
- ct images
- b spline
- initial contour
- computer vision