Research Article

A Hybrid Method for Pancreas Extraction from CT Image Based on Level Set Methods

Figure 2

Denoising of image and feature maps of CT image. (a) Is original CT image, (b) is selection of seed points and standard line definition, (c) is denoised image processed by anisotropic diffusion filter, (d) is gradient magnitude map, (e) is edge feature map, which is employed in fast-marching level method, and (f) is energy map generated by decrement energy of speed map.
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(a) Original image  
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(b) Seed point and standard line
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(c) Denoised image
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(d) Gradient magnitude of image
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(e) Contour propagation speed map
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(f) Speed map after energy decrement