Automatic spinal cord segmentation from axial-view MRI slices using CNN with grayscale regularized active contour propagation.
Xiaoran ZhangYan LiYicun LiuShu-Xia TangXiaoguang LiuKumaradevan PunithakumarDawei ShiPublished in: Comput. Biol. Medicine (2021)
Keyphrases
- gray scale
- active contours
- spinal cord
- level set
- image segmentation
- cardiac ultrasound images
- shape prior
- segmentation method
- automatically segmenting
- structural analysis
- magnetic resonance images
- gray level
- binary images
- active contour model
- energy functional
- gradient vector flow
- object boundaries
- color images
- energy function
- level set method
- region based active contours
- snake model
- grayscale images
- level set evolution
- medical images
- medical imaging
- external force
- automatic segmentation
- fully automatic
- segmentation algorithm
- intensity distribution
- region growing
- medical image analysis
- image processing
- graph cuts
- magnetic resonance imaging
- partial differential equations
- mumford shah functional
- manual segmentation
- mr images
- endpoints
- computer vision
- shape analysis
- shape model