A level set method for image segmentation in the presence of intensity inhomogeneities with application to MRI

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2007-2016

  Li, Chunming ^a   Huang, Rui ^b   Ding, Zhaohua ^c   Gatenby, J Chris ^d   Metaxas, Dimitris N ^b   Gore, John C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias correction; image segmentation; intensity inhomogeneity; level set; MRI

Indexed keywords

BIAS CORRECTION; BIAS FIELD; GLOBAL CRITERIA; IMAGE DOMAIN; IMAGE INTENSITIES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTENSITY INHOMOGENEITY; INTENSITY INHOMOGENEITY CORRECTION; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET FORMULATIONS; LEVEL SET FUNCTIONS; LEVEL SET METHOD; LOCAL CLUSTERING; PIECEWISE SMOOTH; REAL IMAGES; REAL-WORLD IMAGE; REGION-BASED; REGION-BASED METHODS; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SYNTHETIC IMAGES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79959576791     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2146190     Document Type: Article

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