A fully automated level-set based segmentation method of thoracic and lumbar vertebral bodies in Computed Tomography images.
Silvia Ruiz-EspañaAntonio Diaz-ParraEstanislao AranaDavid MoratalPublished in: EMBC (2015)
Keyphrases
- fully automated
- segmentation method
- computed tomography images
- active contours
- shape prior
- automatic segmentation
- segmentation algorithm
- image segmentation
- fully automatic
- airway tree
- level set
- image segmentation methods
- manual segmentation
- region growing
- energy function
- active contour model
- object segmentation
- curve evolution
- medical imaging
- ct scans
- object boundaries
- level set method
- superpixels
- automated segmentation
- segmented images
- energy functional
- graph cuts
- labor intensive
- watershed transform
- magnetic resonance
- region merging
- segmentation scheme
- energy minimization
- watershed segmentation
- active shape model
- image processing
- image data