A Level Set Approach to Image Segmentation with Intensity Inhomogeneity

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 546-557

  Zhang, Kaihua ^a   Zhang, Lei ^b   Lam, Kin Man ^b   Zhang, David ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Active contour model; bias field correction; intensity inhomogeneity; level set method; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DROP BREAKUP; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; BIAS FIELD CORRECTIONS; INHOMOGENEOUS OBJECTS; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY INHOMOGENEITY; LEVEL SET FUNCTIONS; LEVEL SET METHOD; PIECE-WISE-CONSTANT FUNCTIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84962292441     PISSN: 21682267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2015.2409119     Document Type: Article

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