Level Set Priors Based Approach to the Segmentation of Prostate Ultrasound Image Using Genetic Algorithm

Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 537-544

  Shi, Yongtao ^a,b   Liu, Yiguang ^a   Wu, Pengfei ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA THREE GORGES UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Genetic Algorithm; Implicit Shape Representation; Principal Component Analysis; Prostate Ultrasound Image Segmentation; Shape Prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890976298     PISSN: 10798587     EISSN: 2326005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10798587.2013.869111     Document Type: Article

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