An improved level set method for automatically volume measure: Application in tumor tracking from MRI images

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 808-811

  Li, X ^a,b   Lebonvallet, S ^a   Qiu, T ^b   Ruan, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAND TRACKING; LEVEL SET METHOD; THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT; TUMOR VOLUME;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; TUMORS;

VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME; TUMOR VOLUME;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 57649171697     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352413     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. Mancas M. and Gosselin B., "Iterative watersheds and fuzzy tumor visualization", IEEE Visualization Conference, 2003.
2. Dou. W., Ruan S., Bloyet D., Constans J.M., " A framework of fuzzy information fusion for the segmentation of brain tumor tissues on MR images ", Image and Vision Computing, Vol.25(2), 2007, pp.164-171.
3. Zhang J. and Ma K. and Hwa Er M. and Chong V., "Tumor Segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Learning via one-class support vector machine", IWAIT04, Singapore, 2004, pp. 207-211.
4. Ho S., Bullitt E., and Gerig G., "Level set evolution with region competition: Automatic 3- D segmentation of brain tumors", International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2002, pp.532-535.
5. T. Chan and L. Vese. " Active contours without edges, " IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol.10, no.2, pp. 266-277, Feb. 2001.
6. S. Osher and J. A. Sethian, "Fronts propagating with curvature-dependent speed: Algorithms based on Hamilton-Jacobi Formulation, " J.Comput. Phys., vol. 79, pp. 12-49, 1988.
7. F M. Kass, A. Witkin, and D. Terzopoulos, "Snakes: Active contour models, " Int. J. Comput. Vis., vol. 1, pp. 321-331, 1988..
8. R. Malladi, J. A. Sethian, and B. C. Vemuri, "Shape modeling with front propagation: A level set approach", IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Machine Intell., vol. 17, pp. 158-175, Feb. 1995.
9. R. Malladi, J. A. Sethian, and B. C. Vemuri, "A topology independent shape modeling scheme", in Proc. SPIE Conf. Geometric Methods Computer Vision II, vol. 2031, San Diego, CA, 1993, pp. 246-258.
10. D. Mumford and J. Shah, "Optimal approximation by piecewise smooth functions and associated variational problems," Commun. Pure Appl. Math, vol. 42, pp. 577-685, 1989.