Probabilistic minimal path for automated esophagus segmentation.
Mikaël RoussonYing BaiChenyang XuFrank SauerPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2006)
Keyphrases
- minimal path
- tubular structures
- endpoints
- active contour model
- minimal surface
- automatic segmentation
- segmentation algorithm
- minimal paths
- region growing
- segmentation method
- level set
- fully automatic
- boundary extraction
- probabilistic model
- ct scans
- active contours
- image segmentation
- multiscale
- blood vessels
- generative model
- ct images
- energy function
- fully automated
- computer vision
- edge detection
- energy functional
- low contrast
- graph search
- carotid artery
- search algorithm
- heuristic search