3D medical image segmentation based on active contour model

• Published in: 2012 5th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics pp. 98 - 102
• Main Authors: Zhang Shuai, Peng Yanjun
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2012
• Subjects: active contour model; curve fitting; three-dimensional medical image segmentation; VFC
• ISBN: 9781467311830; 1467311839
• DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2012.6512895

Contour initialization is a big problem of the active contours. Using the continuous features of the three-dimensional medical image, this paper proposes an initial contour prediction model. There are some changes in the boundary contours in the adjacent images of the same object and we attribute these changes to continuous translation and similar deformation, and quantify into the displacement of the centroid and displacement of the point in the direction of Normal. The curve fitting method is used to predict the centroid displacement and the displacement of the points of the contours, which can provide more accurate prediction of changes in the contour. By predicting the initial contour, we have solved the contour initialization problem of the parametric active contour with external force using vector field convolution.