Simulating the Grassfire Transform Using an Active Contour Model
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Gradient Vector Flow: A New External Force for Snakes
CVPR '97 Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '97)
Digital Image Processing (3rd Edition)
Digital Image Processing (3rd Edition)
Gallbladder segmentation in 2-D ultrasound images using deformable contour methods
MDAI'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Modeling decisions for artificial intelligence
Snakes, shapes, and gradient vector flow
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Carotid ultrasound segmentation using DP active contours
ICIAR'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
Automatic Liver Segmentation from 2D CT Images Using an Approximate Contour Model
Journal of Signal Processing Systems
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Extracting the shape of the gallbladder from an ultrasonography (USG) image is an important step in software supporting medical diagnostics, as it allows superfluous information which is immaterial in the diagnostic process to be eliminated. In this project, several active contour models were used to segment the shape of the gallbladder, both for cases free of lesions, and for those showing specific disease units, namely: lithiasis, polyps, and anatomical changes, such as folds of the gallbladder. The approximate edge of the gallbladder is found by applying one of the active contour models like the membrane and motion equation as well as the gradient vector flow model (GVF-snake). Then, the fragment of the image located outside the identified gallbladder contour is eliminated from the image. The tests carried out showed that the average value of the Dice similarity coefficient for the three active contour models applied reached 81.8%.