Unsupervised Cardiac Image Segmentation via Multiswarm Active Contours with a Shape Prior.
Ivan Cruz-AcevesJuan Gabriel Aviña-CervantesJuan Manuel Lopez-HernandezMa. de Guadalupe García-HernándezMario Alberto Ibarra-ManzanoPublished in: Comput. Math. Methods Medicine (2013)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- shape prior
- image segmentation
- texture image segmentation
- object boundaries
- level set
- active contour model
- object segmentation
- level set method
- segmentation method
- curve evolution
- variational segmentation
- energy function
- energy functional
- level set framework
- image analysis
- gradient vector flow
- level set segmentation
- deformable models
- segmentation algorithm
- region growing
- variational framework
- prior shape
- geodesic active contours
- pose invariant
- graph cuts
- variational formulation
- shape variations
- segmented images
- external force
- force field
- initial contour
- object detection
- region based active contours
- machine learning