MRI-Based Medial Axis Extraction and Boundary Segmentation of Cranial Nerves Through Discrete Deformable 3D Contour and Surface Models.
Sharmin SultanaJason E. BlattBenjamin GillesTanweer RashidMichel A. AudettePublished in: IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging (2017)
Keyphrases
- medial axis
- medial axes
- image segmentation
- medical images
- voronoi diagram
- endpoints
- shape representation
- medical imaging
- three dimensional
- probabilistic model
- tubular objects
- image analysis
- active contours
- magnetic resonance imaging
- statistical models
- level set
- image processing
- deformable models
- magnetic resonance images
- mr images
- cross section
- multiscale
- object shape
- smooth curves
- energy function
- shock graph
- segmentation algorithm