Active deformation fields: Dense deformation field estimation for atlas-based segmentation using the active contour framework

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 787-800

  Gorthi, Subrahmanyam ^a   Duay, Valérie ^b   Bresson, Xavier ^c   Cuadra, Meritxell Bach ^a   Sánchez Castro, F Javier ^d   Pollo, Claudio ^a,e   Allal, Abdelkarim S ^f   Thiran, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^e LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^f Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active contours; Atlas based segmentation; Hierarchical atlas registration; Joint registration and segmentation model; Level set representation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; ATLAS-BASED SEGMENTATION; HIERARCHICAL ATLAS; JOINT REGISTRATION AND SEGMENTATION MODEL; LEVEL SET REPRESENTATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; OPTICAL FLOWS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ART; ARTICLE; ATLAS; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HEAD; LYMPH NODE; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80053946163     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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