Efficient globally optimal segmentation of cells in fluorescence microscopy images using level sets and convex energy functionals.
Jan-Philip BergeestKarl RohrPublished in: Medical Image Anal. (2012)
Keyphrases
- level set
- globally optimal
- energy functional
- fluorescence microscopy images
- active contours
- graph cuts
- shape prior
- partial differential equations
- image segmentation
- variational framework
- level set method
- energy function
- curve evolution
- level lines
- visual inspection
- regularization term
- gradient flow
- variational methods
- geometric active contours
- global minimum
- connected components
- mumford shah
- global minimizers
- mumford shah functional
- cell nuclei
- anisotropic diffusion
- energy minimization
- piecewise constant
- region growing
- segmentation method
- computer vision
- fully automatic
- medical imaging
- gray scale
- image analysis
- multiscale
- image processing