Iterative weighted average diffusion as a novel external force in the active contour model.
Ilya S. MirovArie NakhmaniPublished in: Medical Imaging: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging (2016)
Keyphrases
- weighted average
- active contour model
- gradient vector flow
- external force
- active contours
- force field
- diffusion process
- energy minimization
- snake model
- region growing
- level set method
- vector field
- weighted sum
- segmentation method
- edge map
- edge preserving
- image segmentation
- shape prior
- graph cuts
- energy functional
- object boundaries
- image denoising
- deformable models