Segmentation of the lumbar spine with knowledge-based shape models.
Michael KohnenAndreas H. MahnkenAlexander S. BrandtStephan SteinbergRolf W. GüntherBerthold B. WeinPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2002)
Keyphrases
- shape model
- shape prior
- statistical shape model
- bayesian image segmentation
- lumbar spine
- energy function
- deformable shapes
- global shape
- shape variations
- active shape model
- prior shape knowledge
- level set
- anatomical structures
- object boundaries
- segmentation method
- segmentation algorithm
- image segmentation
- graph cuts
- medical images
- shape representation
- active contours
- computer vision
- ground truth data
- prior knowledge