Prostate ultrasound image segmentation using level set-based region flow with shape guidance

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5747, Issue III, 2005, Pages 1648-1657

  Gong, Lixin ^a   Ng, Lydia ^b   Pathak, Sayan D ^a   Tutar, Ismail ^c   Cho, Paul S ^c   Haynor, David R ^c   Kim, Yongmin ^c  

^a Insightful Corporation   (United States)

^b ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

And prostate ultrasound image segmentation; Implicit shape representations; Level set methods; Region flow; Shape based deformable models

Indexed keywords

IMPLICIT SHAPE REPRESENTATIONS; LEVEL SET METHODS; PROSTATE ULTRASOUND IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REGION FLOW; SHAPE-BASED DEFORMABLE MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 23844460929     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.594403     Document Type: Conference Paper

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