Maximum Likelihood Active Contours Specialized for Mammography Segmentation.
Peyman RahmatiAhmad AyatollahiPublished in: BMEI (2009)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- level set
- maximum likelihood
- shape prior
- segmentation method
- image segmentation
- cardiac ultrasound images
- gradient vector flow
- variational segmentation
- geodesic active contours
- energy function
- energy functional
- active contour model
- geometric active contours
- object boundaries
- active contour segmentation
- region based active contours
- external force
- level set method
- texture image segmentation
- snake model
- image segmentation methods
- segmentation algorithm
- minimal surface
- level set evolution
- region growing
- object segmentation
- gradient flow
- deformable models
- curve evolution
- force field
- edge preserving
- energy minimization
- object segmentation and tracking
- variational formulation
- narrow band
- ultrasound images
- partial differential equations
- medical images
- external forces
- smoothness constraint
- prior shape knowledge
- computer vision
- expectation maximization
- diffusion process
- gaussian distribution
- multiscale
- multiresolution
- x ray