scholarly journals A Prostate MRI Segmentation Tool Based on Active Contour Models Using a Gradient Vector Flow

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (18) ◽  
pp. 6163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquín Rodríguez ◽  
Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz ◽  
Christian Mata
Keyword(s):  
Active Contour ◽  
Automatic Segmentation ◽  
Prostate Gland ◽  
Manual Segmentation ◽  
Gradient Vector Flow ◽  
Gradient Vector ◽  
Active Contour Models ◽  
Prostate Segmentation ◽  
Segmentation Process ◽  
Contour Models

Medical support systems used to assist in the diagnosis of prostate lesions generally related to prostate segmentation is one of the majors focus of interest in recent literature. The main problem encountered in the diagnosis of a prostate study is the localization of a Regions of Interest (ROI) containing a tumor tissue. In this paper, a new GUI tool based on a semi-automatic prostate segmentation is presented. The main rationale behind this tool and the focus of this article is facilitate the time consuming segmentation process used for annotating images in the clinical practice, enabling the radiologists to use novel and easy to use semi-automatic segmentation techniques instead of manual segmentation. In this work, a detailed specification of the proposed segmentation algorithm using an Active Contour Models (ACM) aided with a Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) component is defined. The purpose is to help the manual segmentation process of the main ROIs of prostate gland zones. Finally, an experimental case of use and a discussion part of the results are presented.

scholarly journals Automatic Segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurism (AAA) By Using Active Contour Models

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-74
Author(s):  
Rifki Kosasih
Keyword(s):  
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm ◽  
Aortic Aneurysm ◽  
Active Contour ◽  
Aortic Wall ◽  
Active Contour Model ◽  
Automatic Segmentation ◽  
Accuracy Rate ◽  
Active Contour Models ◽  
Abdominal Aortic ◽  
Contour Models

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a disease that is caused by dilation of the aortic wall. Dilation of the aortic wall will affect the size of the diameter of lumen and the aorta. In this study we use T1 and T2 images on 4 patients with AAA which generated from MR Imaging to calculate the diameter of the abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). To calculate the diameter of lumen and the aorta, the first step is image registration using Laplacian eigenmap method. After that we propose an automatic segmentation method on region of the aorta by using active contour models to get the contour of lumen and the aorta. The last step,  we calculate the diameter of lumen and the aorta by using contour of lumen and the aorta. In our experiment, active contour model is very good method for segmentation AAA. In the result, our proposed model give the accuracy rate of lumen is 96.41% and accuracy rate of aorta is 95.22%. 

Automatic MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation System Based on Localizing Active Contour Models

2011 ◽  
Vol 219-220 ◽  
pp. 1342-1346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Wang ◽  
Zhi Xian Lin ◽  
Jian Guo Cao ◽  
Mao Qing Li
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Active Contour ◽  
Automatic Segmentation ◽  
Brain Mri ◽  
Initial Contour ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Active Contour Models ◽  
Mri Brain ◽  
Contour Models

In this paper, an automatic segmentation system was developed for MRI brain tumor. Local region-based active contour models were suitable for heterogeneous features of brain MRI image. But the models are sensitive to initial contour, which generally requires manual setting. An automatic MRI brain tumor segmentation system were developed based on localized contour models, which can identify tumor-dominant slice, set initial contour automatically and segment tumor’s contours from all MRI slices autonomously. K-means clustering and grayscale analysis were combined to identify tumor-dominant slice. Multi-threshold algorithm with the aid of erosion and dilation operators was adopted to obtain an initial contour for the tumor-dominant slice. The segmentation contour from the local active contour models was applied as initial contours of two-side neighboring slices. MRI brain tumor data were applied to validate the automatic segmentation system.

scholarly journals Active Contour Model Using Fast Fourier Transformation for Salient Object Detection

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
Umer Sadiq Khan ◽  
Xingjun Zhang ◽  
Yuanqi Su
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Fourier Transformation ◽  
Active Contour ◽  
Active Contour Model ◽  
Salient Object Detection ◽  
Fast Fourier Transformation ◽  
Salient Object ◽  
Active Contour Models ◽  
Contour Model ◽  
Contour Models

The active contour model is a comprehensive research technique used for salient object detection. Most active contour models of saliency detection are developed in the context of natural scenes, and their role with synthetic and medical images is not well investigated. Existing active contour models perform efficiently in many complexities but facing challenges on synthetic and medical images due to the limited time like, precise automatic fitted contour and expensive initialization computational cost. Our intention is detecting automatic boundary of the object without re-initialization which further in evolution drive to extract salient object. For this, we propose a simple novel derivative of a numerical solution scheme, using fast Fourier transformation (FFT) in active contour (Snake) differential equations that has two major enhancements, namely it completely avoids the approximation of expansive spatial derivatives finite differences, and the regularization scheme can be generally extended more. Second, FFT is significantly faster compared to the traditional solution in spatial domain. Finally, this model practiced Fourier-force function to fit curves naturally and extract salient objects from the background. Compared with the state-of-the-art methods, the proposed method achieves at least a 3% increase of accuracy on three diverse set of images. Moreover, it runs very fast, and the average running time of the proposed methods is about one twelfth of the baseline.

T1w MRI Brain Tumor Image Segmentation using Active Contour Models and Convolution Neural Network Fusion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vamisdhar Entireddy ◽  
Babu K Rajesh ◽  
R Sampathkumar ◽  
Jyothirmai Gandeti ◽  
Syed Shameem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Active Contour ◽  
Convolution Neural Network ◽  
Active Contour Models ◽  
Mri Brain ◽  
Contour Models
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