DocumentCode
333320
Title
An attractable snake model for contour extraction in MRI images
Author
Ji, Lilian ; Yan, Hong
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia
Volume
2
fYear
1998
fDate
29 Oct-1 Nov 1998
Firstpage
609
Abstract
This paper presents intelligent attractable contour snake based model, which is less sensitive to initial contour condition than the conventional model and works well with low contrast images. The method has been applied to MRI medical images for contour extraction with good results
Keywords
biomedical MRI; edge detection; feature extraction; image segmentation; medical image processing; optimisation; splines (mathematics); Gaussian smoothing; MRI images; active contour; attractable snake model; contour extraction; deformable spline; edge detection; greedy algorithm; image feature potential energy field; image segmentation; intelligent attractable contour model; low contrast images; optimisation; synthetic convergent criteria; Biomedical imaging; Deformable models; Electronic mail; Image converters; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Intelligent sensors; Magnetic resonance imaging; Potential energy; Shape;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location
Hong Kong
ISSN
1094-687X
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5164-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IEMBS.1998.745472
Filename
745472
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