Region competition based active contour for medical object extraction

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-117

  Shang, Yanfeng ^a,b   Yang, Xin ^a   Zhu, Lei ^a   Deklerck, Rudi ^b   Nyssen, Edgard ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Active contour; Level set; Medical image; Object extraction; Prior knowledge; Region competition; Snake model

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; OBJECT EXTRACTION; REGION COMPETITION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37549011019     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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