Medical Image Segmentation via Coupled Curve Evolution Equations with Global Constraints

نویسندگان

  • Anthony Yezzi
  • Andy Tsai
  • Alan Willsky
چکیده

In this work we modify the couple d curve evolution approach to snakes presente dby the authors in previous work for bimodal and trimodal imagery through the intr oduction of glob al constr aints. The key idea, as b efor e, is to derive curve evolution equations which \pull apart" the values of one or more statistics within the image. However, by imposing a new constraint on the evolution of these statistics, we are able to segment a larger class of medical imagery for which our original model would fail.

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تاریخ انتشار 2000