Unsupervised Iterative Segmentation and Recognition of Anatomic Structures in Medical Imagery Using Second-Order B-Spline Descriptors and Geometric Quasi-Invariants.
Tarek A. El DokerPublished in: BIBE (2003)
Keyphrases
- b spline
- medical imagery
- medical images
- anatomical structures
- medical image analysis
- deformable contour
- control points
- brain tumors
- basis functions
- surface representation
- least squares
- object recognition
- imaging modalities
- image segmentation
- segmentation algorithm
- deformable models
- adaptive thresholding
- fully automatic
- deformable registration
- segmentation method
- affine transformation
- contour extraction
- blood vessels
- image intensity
- carotid artery
- free form deformation
- geometric shapes
- object segmentation
- magnetic resonance images
- medical imaging
- level set
- edge detection
- image analysis
- multiscale
- magnetic resonance imaging
- shape prior
- energy function
- image registration