B-spline explicit active surfaces: An efficient framework for real-time 3-D region-based segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 241-251

  Barbosa, Daniel ^a,b   Dietenbeck, Thomas ^b   Schaerer, Joel ^b,c   D'Hooge, Jan ^a   Friboulet, Denis ^b   Bernard, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c BioClinica Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contours; B splines; image segmentation; real time image processing; variational method

Indexed keywords

3D SEGMENTATION; ACTIVE CONTOURS; ACTIVE SURFACES; B SPLINES; B-SPLINE; CARDIAC ULTRASOUND; COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DATA; REAL-TIME IMAGE PROCESSING; REGION-BASED; REGION-BASED SEGMENTATION; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; D REGION; INTERPOLATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SHIP PROPELLERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84255188348     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2161484     Document Type: Article

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