Segmentation of the metacarpus and phalange in musculoskeletal ultrasound images using local active contours.
Nelson MartinsMalik Saad SultanDiana VeigaManuel FerreiraMiguel T. CoimbraPublished in: EMBC (2016)
Keyphrases
- active contour segmentation
- ultrasound images
- active contours
- level set
- shape prior
- echocardiographic images
- segmentation method
- medical ultrasound
- image segmentation
- object boundaries
- ultrasound imaging
- active contour model
- speckle noise
- cardiac ultrasound images
- gradient vector flow
- level set method
- energy functional
- geodesic active contours
- energy function
- geometric active contours
- gradient flow
- medical images
- external force
- speckle reduction
- object segmentation
- texture image segmentation