2008 International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics A Knowledge-based Segmentation Method Integrating both Region and Boundary Information of Medical Images May 27-May 30 ISBN: 978-0-7695-3118-2
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/BMEI.2008.64
In this article, the author proposed a hybrid segmentation method which integrates region, boundary and priori knowledge information of medical images. The basic algorithm of this method is level set active contours. The speed function is initialized according to the gradient of the image, and is modified according to statistical characteristic of the segmented regions as the curve evolves. To make the curve stop accurately at the boundary of the object, an energy function is constructed by improving Chan-Vese model. The priori knowledge of the region of interest (ROI) is also integrated into this energy function. The experiment data consists of both simulated images and real clinical images. Precision, accuracy and efficiency are considered in evaluating this method. The evaluation result shows that this method is robust, accurate and has high performance, especially when the boundary is weak or dotted.
Index Terms:
medical image segment, level set, priori knowledge
Citation:
Jianwei Dong, Shi Zhang, Lihuang She, "A Knowledge-based Segmentation Method Integrating both Region and Boundary Information of Medical Images," bmei, vol. 1, pp.797-801, 2008 International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, 2008 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||