Biomedical image segmentation: a survey

Y Alzahrani, B Boufama - SN Computer Science, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Medical Image Segmentation is the process of segmenting and detecting
boundaries of anatomical structures in various types of 2D and 3D-medical images. The …

Biomechanics of milk extraction during breast-feeding

D Elad, P Kozlovsky, O Blum… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
How do infants extract milk during breast-feeding? We have resolved a century-long
scientific controversy, whether it is sucking of the milk by subatmospheric pressure or …

3-D active meshes: fast discrete deformable models for cell tracking in 3-D time-lapse microscopy

A Dufour, R Thibeaux, E Labruyere… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Variational deformable models have proven over the past decades a high efficiency for
segmentation and tracking in 2-D sequences. Yet, their application to 3-D time-lapse images …

Automatic initialization of active contours and level set method in ultrasound images of breast abnormalities

A Rodtook, K Kirimasthong, W Lohitvisate… - Pattern Recognition, 2018 - Elsevier
We propose a novel initialization method designed for active contours (AC) and the level set
method (LSM), based on walking particles. The algorithm defines the seeds at converging …

Nuclei segmentation of fluorescence microscopy images using three dimensional convolutional neural networks

D Joon Ho, C Fu, P Salama… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Fluorescence microscopy enables one to visualize subcellular structures of living tissue or
cells in three dimensions. This is especially true for two-photon microscopy using near …

An edge-region force guided active shape approach for automatic lung field detection in chest radiographs

T Xu, M Mandal, R Long, I Cheng, A Basu - Computerized Medical Imaging …, 2012 - Elsevier
Automatic and accurate lung field segmentation is an essential step for develo** an
automated computer-aided diagnosis system for chest radiographs. Although active shape …

General tube law for collapsible thin and thick-wall tubes

P Kozlovsky, U Zaretsky, AJ Jaffa, D Elad - Journal of biomechanics, 2014 - Elsevier
Modeling the complex deformations of cylindrical tubes under external pressure is of interest
in engineering and physiological applications. The highly non-linear post-buckling behavior …

Embedding vector field into image features to enhance classification

NM Sirakov, A Bowden, M Chen, LH Ngo… - Journal of Computational …, 2024 - Elsevier
Classical methods, including sparse representation classification (SRC) and neural
networks (NNs), classify image object (s) using features like intensity, color, texture, and …

Fast and fully automatic 3-d echocardiographic segmentation using b-spline explicit active surfaces: Feasibility study and validation in a clinical setting

D Barbosa, T Dietenbeck, B Heyde, H Houle… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2013 - Elsevier
A novel framework to efficiently deal with three-dimensional (3-D) segmentation of
challenging inhomogeneous data in real-time has been recently introduced by the authors …

Particle method for segmentation of breast tumors in ultrasound images

N Karunanayake, P Aimmanee, W Lohitvisate… - … and Computers in …, 2020 - Elsevier
We propose a new segmentation method based on multiple walking particles (WP)
bouncing from the image edges. The particles are able to segment objects characterized by …