Semester
Summer
Date of Graduation
2007
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MS
College
Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
Department
Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Committee Chair
Tim McGraw.
Abstract
A vast amount of the current research in medical image analysis has aimed to develop improved techniques of image segmentation. Of the existing approaches, active contour methods have proven effective by incorporating edge or region information from the image into a level set formulation. However, complications arise in images containing regions of low-contrast due to noise, occlusions, or partial volume effects, which are often unavoidable in practical applications. Incorporating prior shape information into the segmentation framework provides a more accurate and robust solution by constraining the evolving contour to resemble a target shape. Two methods are presented to incorporate a shape prior into existing active contour segmentation methods, including the edge-based geodesic active contours model and a fast update implementation of the region-based Chan-Vese model. Applying these methods to synthetic and real images demonstrates that an improved result can be obtained for images containing low-contrast edge regions.
Recommended Citation
Madden, Matthew J., "Segmentation of images with low-contrast edges" (2007). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 1833.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/1833