Phase- and GVF-Based Level Set Segmentation of Ultrasonic Breast Tumors

Automatically extracting breast tumor boundaries in ultrasound images is a difficult task due to the speckle noise, the low image contrast, the variance in shapes, and the local changes of image intensity. In this paper, an improved edge-based active contour model in a variational level set formula...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liang Gao, Xiaoyun Liu, Wufan Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/810805