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Using Prior Shape and Points in Medical Image Segmentation
[chapter]
2003
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
One measures high image gradients, the other two measure the disparity in shape between the interface and prior, and the distance from the prior points to the interface, respectively. ...
In this paper we propose a new variational framework for image segmentation that incorporates the information of expected shape and a few points on the boundary into geodesic active contours. ...
Wilson and E.A.Geiser for providing ultrasound heart images. Yunmei Chen is partially supported by NIH grants P50-DC03888, and NIH NS42075. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-45063-4_19
fatcat:5i7q47szyzb7virkuuor62bsva
Analysis of contour evolution methods for segmentation of medical images
2015
2015 International Conference on Innovations in Information, Embedded and Communication Systems (ICIIECS)
Deformable models are promising and robustly researched computer-assisted medical image analysis technique. Here the segmentation is done by using the contour evolution method. ...
Among the various prior models, shape is the most important to acquire the heart shape accurately. This approach is used to segment the heart from the computed tomographic image. ...
In this paper, we use the shape of the object as the contour for the segmentation of 2D medical images [11] - [12] . ...
doi:10.1109/iciiecs.2015.7192938
fatcat:qxzzijdyi5akddprvhejpjnvly
Medical Image Segmentation Using Minimal Path Deformable Models With Implicit Shape Priors
2006
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
This paper presents a new method for segmentation of medical images by extracting organ contours, using minimal path deformable models incorporated with statistical shape priors. ...
Index Terms-Deformable models, energy minimization, medical image segmentation, minimal path, shape prior modeling. ...
Wang and Dr. B. Shuter of National University Hospital, Singapore, for providing data sets and manual segmentation results used in this work. ...
doi:10.1109/titb.2006.874199
pmid:17044401
fatcat:apaez2kbkncx3mivewod3rugei
Neighbor-Constrained Segmentation With Level Set Based 3-D Deformable Models
2004
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
A novel method for the segmentation of multiple objects from three-dimensional (3-D) medical images using interobject constraints is presented. ...
Index Terms-Deformable models, level set, neighbor-constrained segmentation, neighbor prior model, shape prior model, 3-D segmentation. ...
Win and R. T. Schultz for help with the visualization and manual tracing of the MR data. They also thank H. Tagare for the many thoughtful discussions and comments. ...
doi:10.1109/tmi.2004.830802
pmid:15338728
pmcid:PMC2838450
fatcat:4a4cy765jvdajmcmfprp56sixy
A Generalized Level Set Formulation of the Mumford-Shah Functional with Shape Prior for Medical Image Segmentation
[chapter]
2005
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Image segmentation is an important research topic in medical image analysis area. ...
The region force provides a global criterion and increases the speed of convergence, the gradient information allows for a better spatial localization while the shape prior makes the model especially useful ...
The authors Lishui Cheng and Xian Fan would like to particularly thank for the many helpful and stimulating discussions with Dr. Chenyang Xu and Dr. Yuanjie Zheng on medical image segmentation. ...
doi:10.1007/11569541_8
fatcat:rkg3cweh6rfp5ddb5dsk34egky
3D image segmentation of deformable objects with joint shape-intensity prior models using level sets
2004
Medical Image Analysis
We define a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation model using the joint prior information of the object shape and the image gray levels to realize image segmentation. ...
We propose a novel method for 3D image segmentation, where a Bayesian formulation, based on joint prior knowledge of the object shape and the image gray levels, along with information derived from the ...
Finally, they thank the editors and reviewers for their general and detailed comments and suggestions, which very much helped to improve the presentation of the paper. ...
doi:10.1016/j.media.2004.06.008
pmid:15450223
pmcid:PMC2832842
fatcat:kyjaa5iquzaqjaxxxqbxd3dbr4
Shape prior based image segmentation using manifold learning
2015
2015 International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA)
In image segmentation, the shape knowledge of the object may be used to guide the segmentation process. ...
Finally, some segmentation results are shown on a medical imaging application. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This project is co-financed by the European Union with the European regional development fund (ERDF) and by the Haute-Normandie Regional Council. ...
doi:10.1109/ipta.2015.7367113
dblp:conf/ipta/QuispeP15
fatcat:3qszktceefc6fa6nsjh753ujxu
3D Image Segmentation of Deformable Objects with Shape-Appearance Joint Prior Models
[chapter]
2003
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
We define a Maximum A Posteriori(MAP) estimation model using the joint prior information of the shape and image gray levels to realize image segmentation. ...
We propose a novel method for 3D image segmentation, where a Bayesian formulation, based on joint prior knowledge of the shape and the image gray levels, along with information derived from the input image ...
Introduction The accurate segmentation and quantitative analysis of structures in an image is a fundamental issue in a variety of applications including medical image processing, computer vision and pattern ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-39899-8_71
fatcat:36issxxnorhopgtogpyhevr7qa
Segmentation of medical images using a genetic algorithm
2006
Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation - GECCO '06
Shape and textural priors derived from manually segmented images are used to constrain the evolution of the segmenting curve over successive generations. ...
Segmentation of medical images is challenging due to poor image contrast and artifacts that result in missing or diffuse organ/tissue boundaries. ...
Arthur Hung for providing training data for this analysis and to Dr. Xubo Song and Kun Yang for their help in providing data and for valuable discussions on this project. ...
doi:10.1145/1143997.1144183
dblp:conf/gecco/GhoshM06
fatcat:frgl6g3oerbsvjn2r7oxe756sa
Robust Medical Images Segmentation Using Learned Shape and Appearance Models
[chapter]
2009
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
We propose a novel parametric deformable model controlled by shape and visual appearance priors learned from a training subset of co-aligned medical images of goal objects. ...
Due to the analytical shape and appearance priors and a simple Expectation-Maximization procedure for getting the object and background LCDG, our segmentation is considerably faster than with most of the ...
Introduction Parametric and geometric deformable models are widely used for image segmentation. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04268-3_35
fatcat:37iv6mwkeng4xeujyrge5dr74e
An Explicit Shape-Constrained MRF-Based Contour Evolution Method for 2-D Medical Image Segmentation
2014
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
While segmenting organs in medical images, which is the topic of this paper, a significant amount of prior knowledge about the shape, appearance, and location of the organs is available that can be used ...
Index Terms-Medical image segmentation, Markov random field model, contour evolution, shape priors. ...
A variety of approaches have been proposed, both for image segmentation in general [1] and for medical image segmentation in particular [2] . ...
doi:10.1109/jbhi.2013.2257820
pmid:24403409
fatcat:7onhr4t4dzdqjhhsldb2yg3tpm
Statistical region-based active contours for segmentation: An overview
2014
IRBM
In this paper we propose a brief survey on geometric variational approaches and more precisely on statistical region-based active contours for medical image segmentation. ...
Examples on real medical images are given to illustrate some of the given criteria. ...
Clouard from GREYC Laboratory for their useful image processing libraries Gmic and Pandore. [1] S. Zhu, A. ...
doi:10.1016/j.irbm.2013.12.002
fatcat:7zarlkcxzbaupocf6bvrnemej4
Shape regularized active contour based on dynamic programming for anatomical structure segmentation
2005
Medical Imaging 2005: Image Processing
We present a method to incorporate nonlinear shape prior constraints into segmenting different anatomical structures in medical images. ...
Both applications have shown that our method is effective and versatile in segmenting various anatomical structures under prior shape constraints; and it is robust to noise and local minima caused by clutter ...
Senn, Hui Luo, Michael Heath, Teresa Levy, and Xiaohui Wang for help and discussions. ...
doi:10.1117/12.594662
dblp:conf/miip/YuLSA05
fatcat:3uvsro2dj5eunknxlqjfqy4rby
Segmentation of kidney from ultrasound images based on texture and shape priors
2005
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
This paper presents a novel texture and shape priors based method for kidney segmentation in ultrasound (US) images. ...
Index Terms-Image segmentation, kidney segmentation, texture and shape prior, ultrasound image processing. ...
Left Kidney Segmentation To segment kidney in US images, we have tried to derive the shape prior model from US images directly. ...
doi:10.1109/tmi.2004.837792
pmid:15638185
fatcat:ymylzulkszcwngk2ruvzhpmiae
Shape-Driven 3D Segmentation Using Spherical Wavelets
[chapter]
2006
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
This paper presents a novel active surface segmentation algorithm using a multiscale shape representation and prior. ...
We define a parametric model of a surface using spherical wavelet functions and learn a prior probability distribution over the wavelet coefficients to model shape variations at different scales and spatial ...
This work is part of the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NAMIC), funded by the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant U54 EB005149. ...
doi:10.1007/11866565_9
fatcat:6rxbbq7isbdsjchyqaco3z5x5q
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