• DocumentCode
    382218
  • Title

    Constrained optimization: a geodesic snake approach

  • Author

    Wang, Xun ; He, Lei ; Wee, William G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept.of Electron Comput. & Eng. Comput. Sci, Univ. of Cincinnati, OH, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2002
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a deformable contour method is formulated and derived in a constrained optimization framework. The constraint is reflected in the resulting contour evolution equation. This constraint element can be used to characterize any interior property and/or structure including the added "balloon force" used in geodesic snake as a special case, which has the potential of having expanded applications to far more complex interior. An implementation of the method is applied to a MRI brain image and the results are favorable.
  • Keywords
    biomedical MRI; brain; differential geometry; edge detection; medical image processing; optimisation; MRI brain image; balloon force; constrained optimization; contour evolution equation; deformable contour method; geodesic snake; Active contours; Brain; Constraint optimization; Convergence; Differential equations; Geophysics computing; Helium; Level set; Magnetic resonance imaging; Minimization methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Image Processing. 2002. Proceedings. 2002 International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1522-4880
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7622-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIP.2002.1039891
  • Filename
    1039891