A comparative study of deformable contour methods on medical image segmentation

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 141-163

  He, Lei ^a   Peng, Zhigang ^b   Everding, Bryan ^b   Wang, Xun ^b   Han, Chia Y ^b   Weiss, Kenneth L ^c   Wee, William G ^b  

^a Armstrong State University   (United States)

^b University of Cincinnati   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Comparative study; Deformable contour method; Level set; Medical image segmentation; Snake

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; DEFORMABLE CONTOUR METHODS (DCM); IMAGE TEST SET; MULTIPLE PARAMETER SELECTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 35848947947     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2007.07.010     Document Type: Review

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