Active contours based on weighted gradient vector flow and balloon forces for medical image segmentation.
Alaa KhadidosVictor SanchezChang-Tsun LiPublished in: ICIP (2014)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- gradient vector flow
- external force
- external forces
- level set method
- curve evolution
- force field
- active contour model
- level set
- gvf snake
- image segmentation
- object boundaries
- vector field
- energy functional
- shape prior
- medical images
- energy function
- segmentation method
- deformable models
- diffusion process
- edge preserving
- geometric active contours
- total variation
- smoothness constraint
- improved algorithm
- markov random field
- image analysis
- computer vision