Semi-automatic active contour approach to segmentation of computed tomography volumes.
Sven LoncaricDomagoj KovacevicErich SorantinPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2000)
Keyphrases
- semi automatic
- active contours
- computed tomography
- level set
- medical imaging
- image segmentation
- medical images
- shape prior
- cardiac ultrasound images
- ct images
- segmentation method
- fully automatic
- three dimensional
- cardiac ct
- energy functional
- image reconstruction
- gradient vector flow
- energy function
- ct scans
- object boundaries
- active contour model
- ct data
- snake model
- level set method
- region based active contours
- level set evolution
- gold standard
- anatomical structures
- region growing
- low contrast
- segmentation algorithm
- partial differential equations
- x ray
- patient specific
- image analysis
- curve evolution
- fracture detection
- fully automated
- multiscale
- graph cuts
- airway tree
- deformable models
- magnetic resonance images
- computer aided diagnosis
- machine learning
- parametric active contours
- region of interest
- cardiac cycle
- image registration
- shape variations
- high resolution