Locating Chest Boundary in Sequential Images by Snakes

Snakes를 이용한 흉부 연속영상의 외부윤곽검출

  • Hwang, Y.H. (Dept. of Electronic Eng., Myongji Univ.) ;
  • Choi, W.Y. (Dept. of Electronic Eng., Myongji Univ.)
  • 황용호 (명지대학교 전자공학과) ;
  • 최우영 (명지대학교 전자공학과)
  • Published : 1997.11.28

Abstract

Snakes is an active contour model or representing image contours. To detect chest boundary on thoracic MRI sequences, we proposed a method based on modified greedy algorithm. Because thoracic MRI sequences have a spatial correlation, we added energy term related with spatial correlation to Snakes energy formulation. A measure of shape similarity called the BMD was used to evaluate the accuracy of the algorithm. The average BMD value or the modified algorithm's result is higher than greedy algorithm's.

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