Using prior shapes in geometric active contours in a variational framework

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 315-328

  Chen, Yunmei ^a   Tagare, Hemant D ^b   Thiruvenkadam, Sheshadri ^a   Huang, Feng ^a   Wilson, David ^a   Gopinath, Kaundinya S ^c   Briggs, Richard W ^c   Geiser, Edward A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contour; Registration; Segmentation; Shape prior; Variational method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

GEOMETRIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; VARIATIONAL METHOD;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0036892488     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020878408985     Document Type: Article

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