Semi-automatic Fisher-Tippett guided active contour for lumbar multifidus muscle segmentation.
Dorothy LuiChristian ScharfenbergerDiana E. De CarvalhoJack P. CallaghanAlexander WongPublished in: EMBC (2014)
Keyphrases
- semi automatic
- active contours
- level set
- shape prior
- segmentation method
- image segmentation
- cardiac ultrasound images
- fully automatic
- variational segmentation
- gradient vector flow
- energy function
- snake model
- active contour model
- object boundaries
- geodesic active contours
- energy functional
- active contour segmentation
- geometric active contours
- region based active contours
- image segmentation methods
- curve evolution
- gold standard
- level set method
- level set evolution
- model for image segmentation
- external force
- level set framework
- segmentation algorithm
- region growing
- graph cuts
- object segmentation
- gradient flow
- mumford shah functional
- force field
- partial differential equations
- gvf snake
- parametric active contours
- deformable models
- image gradient
- fully automated
- chan vese model
- shape model
- minimal path
- energy minimization
- computer vision
- medical imaging
- prior shape
- shape constraints
- medical images
- ultrasound images
- region merging
- contour extraction
- mumford shah