Implicit active contours for automatic brachytherapy seed segmentation in fluoroscopy.
Eric MoultClif BurdetteDanny Y. SongGabor FichtingerPascal FallavollitaPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image-Guided Procedures (2012)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- level set
- shape prior
- prostate brachytherapy
- segmentation method
- image segmentation
- cardiac ultrasound images
- gradient vector flow
- variational segmentation
- active contour segmentation
- energy function
- geodesic active contours
- energy functional
- object boundaries
- geometric active contours
- texture image segmentation
- region based active contours
- external force
- active contour model
- snake model
- level set method
- intraoperative
- image segmentation methods
- x ray
- fully automatic
- curve evolution
- object segmentation
- segmentation algorithm
- needle insertion
- robot assisted
- level set evolution
- image analysis
- variational framework
- gradient flow
- energy minimization
- partial differential equations
- segmentation result
- region growing
- vector field
- medical imaging
- graph cuts
- edge preserving
- anatomical structures
- ultrasound images
- minimal path
- parametric active contours
- multiresolution