On the incorporation of shape priors into geometric active contours
- 13 November 2002
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 145-152
- https://doi.org/10.1109/vlsm.2001.938893
Abstract
A novel model for boundary determination that incorporates prior shape information into geometric active contours is presented. The basic idea of this model is to minimize the energy functional depending on the information of the image gradient and the shape of interest, so that the boundary of the object can be captured either by higher magnitude of the image gradient or by the prior knowledge of its shape. The level set form of the proposed model is also provided. We present our experimental results on some synthetic images, functional MR brain images, and ultrasound images for which the existing active contour methods are not applicable. The existence of the solution to the proposed minimization problem is also discussed.Keywords
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