Coupled directional level set for MR image segmentation

Proceedings - 2012 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 185-190

  Qin, Xianjing ^a   Liu, Yang ^b   Lu, Hongbing ^b   Li, Xuelong ^a   Yan, Pingkun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coupled level set; Directional gradient; Image segmentation; Thickness constraint

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; BLADDER WALL; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; DIRECTIONAL GRADIENT; FUNDAMENTAL OPERATIONS; GRADIENT BASED; IMAGE FEATURES; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LEVEL SET; LEVEL-SET MODEL; MR IMAGES; REGION INFORMATION; REGION-BASED METHODS; SOFT TISSUE; THICKNESS CONSTRAINT;

LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84873602918     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2012.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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