Detection of Pulmonary Nodules in CT Images Based on Fuzzy Integrated Active Contour Model and Hybrid Parametric Mixture Model.
Bin LiKan ChenLianfang TianYao YeboahShanxing OuPublished in: Comput. Math. Methods Medicine (2013)
Keyphrases
- ct images
- mixture model
- pulmonary nodules
- active contour model
- computer aided detection
- ct scans
- computed tomography
- active contours
- medical images
- probabilistic model
- em algorithm
- generative model
- computer tomography
- curve evolution
- expectation maximization
- computer aided
- medical imaging
- computer aided diagnosis
- region growing
- maximum likelihood
- model selection
- lung nodules
- lung parenchyma
- segmentation method
- level set method
- energy minimization
- object boundaries
- region of interest
- x ray images
- shape prior
- lung cancer
- medical image processing
- x ray
- image analysis
- ground glass opacity
- image segmentation