Liver segmentation by an active contour model with embedded Gaussian mixture model based classifiers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7723, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shang, Yanfeng ^a,b   Markova, Aneta ^a   Deklerck, Rudi ^a   Nyssen, Edgard ^a   Yang, Xin ^b   De Mey, Johan ^c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Active contour; Gaussian mixture model; Level set; Liver; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ACTIVE CONTOURS; DEVELOPED MODEL; EMBEDDED CLASSIFIERS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LEVEL SET; LIVER SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGES; SURGERY PLANNING;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; CLASSIFIERS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LIVER; MEDICAL IMAGING; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77954399633     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.855050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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