Cell-based dual snake model: A new approach to extracting highly winding boundaries in the ultrasound images

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1061-1073

  Chen, Chung Ming ^a,c   Lu, Henry Horng Shing ^b   Huang, Yueng Shiang ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Institute of Biomedical Engineering   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Boundary extraction; Cell based deformation; Deformable model; Dual snake model; Multiscale Gaussian filters; Ultrasound images; Watershed transform

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DEFORMATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SPECKLE;

DUAL SNAKE MODELS;

ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGING; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER DISEASES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036706610     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00531-8     Document Type: Article

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