An active contour model for mapping the cortex

CA Davatzikos, JL Prince - IEEE Transactions on Medical …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new active contour model for finding and mapping the outer cortex in brain images is
developed. A cross-section of the brain cortex is modeled as a ribbon, and a constant speed …

A discrete dynamic contour model

S Lobregt, MA Viergever - IEEE transactions on medical …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A discrete dynamic model for defining contours in 2-D images is developed. The structure of
this model is a set of connected vertices. With a minimum of interaction, an initial contour …

Segmentation of the hippocampus from brain MRI using deformable contours

A Ghanei, H Soltanian-Zadeh, JP Windham - … Medical Imaging and …, 1998 - Elsevier
The application of a discrete dynamic contour model for segmentation of the hippocampus
from brain MRI has been investigated. Solutions to several common problems of dynamic …

Tracking deformable objects in the plane using an active contour model

F Leymarie, MD Levine - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis …, 1993 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problems of segmenting a noisy intensity image and tracking a nonrigid object in the
plane are discussed. In evaluating these problems, a technique based on an active contour …

A finite element method applied to new active contour models and 3D reconstruction from cross sections

LD Cohen, I Cohen - 1990 - inria.hal.science
The use of energy-minimizing curves, known as" snakes" to extract features of interest in
images has been introduced by Kass, Witkin & Terzopoulos. We present a model of …

Active contour based segmentation techniques for medical image analysis

R Hemalatha, T Thamizhvani, AJA Dhivya… - … and biological image …, 2018 - books.google.com
Image processing is a technique which is used to derive information from the images.
Segmentation is a section of image processing for the separation or segregation of …

Using prior shapes in geometric active contours in a variational framework

Y Chen, HD Tagare, S Thiruvenkadam… - International Journal of …, 2002 - Springer
In this paper, we report an active contour algorithm that is capable of using prior shapes. The
energy functional of the contour is modified so that the energy depends on the image …

A fast algorithm for active contours and curvature estimation

DJ Williams, M Shah - CVGIP: Image understanding, 1992 - Elsevier
A model for representing image contours in a form that allows interaction with higher level
processes has been proposed by Kass et al.(in Proceedings of First International …

[PS][PS] A new external force model for snakes

JL Prince, C Xu - Proc. 1996 Image and Multidimensional Signal …, 1996 - iacl.ece.jhu.edu
Active contour models, or snakes, are widely used in image analysis for boundary
identification and mapping. One difficulty with snakes is their inability to converge to concave …

A fast, simple active contour algorithm for biomedical images

H Eviatar, RL Somorjai - Pattern Recognition Letters, 1996 - Elsevier
A new method for the application of active contours to biomedical images is described. The
new approach, which involves extensive modification of the internal energy function and a …