Shape priors for segmentation of the cervix region within Uterine Cervix images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6914, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Lotenberg, Shelly ^a   Gordon, Shiri ^a   Greenspan, Hayit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Active contour; Cervical cancer; Image segmentation and indexing; Level set function; Shape prior; Uterine cervix

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TUMORS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR; CERVICAL CANCER; LEVEL SET FUNCTION; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE; UTERINE CERVIX;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 43449133023     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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