Blood vessel segmentation algorithms—review of methods, datasets and evaluation metrics

S Moccia, E De Momi, S El Hadji, LS Mattos - Computer methods and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Blood vessel segmentation is a topic of high interest in medical image analysis
since the analysis of vessels is crucial for diagnosis, treatment planning and execution, and …

[PDF][PDF] An overview of intelligent image segmentation using active contour models

Y Chen, P Ge, G Wang, G Weng, H Chen - Intell. Robot, 2023 - researchgate.net
The active contour model (ACM) approach in image segmentation is regarded as a research
hotspot in the area of computer vision, which is widely applied in different kinds of …

A level set approach to image segmentation with intensity inhomogeneity

K Zhang, L Zhang, KM Lam… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is often a difficult task to accurately segment images with intensity inhomogeneity, because
most of representative algorithms are region-based that depend on intensity homogeneity of …

Optic disk and cup segmentation from monocular color retinal images for glaucoma assessment

GD Joshi, J Sivaswamy… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic retinal image analysis is emerging as an important screening tool for early
detection of eye diseases. Glaucoma is one of the most common causes of blindness. The …

An active contour model driven by adaptive local pre-fitting energy function based on Jeffreys divergence for image segmentation

P Ge, Y Chen, G Wang, G Weng - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Active contour model (ACM) has been a competitive tool in image segmentation because of
its desired segmentation result and accuracy. Nevertheless, it may become unstable while …

Active contours driven by region-scalable fitting and optimized Laplacian of Gaussian energy for image segmentation

K Ding, L **ao, G Weng - Signal Processing, 2017 - Elsevier
It had been known that the famous region scalable-fitting model can segment the images
with intensity inhomogeneity effectively, but it largely depends on the position of initial …

A hybrid active contour model based on pre-fitting energy and adaptive functions for fast image segmentation

P Ge, Y Chen, G Wang, G Weng - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, a hybrid active contour model driven by pre-fitting energy with an adaptive
edge indicator function and an adaptive sign function is proposed. The key idea of …

Active contour model based on local Kullback–Leibler divergence for fast image segmentation

C Yang, G Weng, Y Chen - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
The inhomogeneity of image intensity and noise are the main factors that affect the
segmentation results. To overcome these challenges, a new active contour model is …

Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) identification and density assessment on H&E-stained digital slides of lung cancer

P Barmpoutis, M Di Capite, H Kayhanian… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) are ectopic aggregates of lymphoid cells in inflamed,
infected, or tumoral tissues that are easily recognized on an H&E histology slide as discrete …

Active contour model based on local and global intensity information for medical image segmentation

S Zhou, J Wang, S Zhang, Y Liang, Y Gong - Neurocomputing, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel region-based active contour model in the level set formulation
for medical image segmentation. We define a unified fitting energy framework based on …