Research Article

A Priori Knowledge and Probability Density Based Segmentation Method for Medical CT Image Sequences

Figure 1

Segmentation example: necessary reprocessing for pancreas segmentation. (a) Denoised CT image. (b) The mask of previous slice. (c) The search region of pancreas based on mask of previous slice. (d) Edge feature map. (e) Probability density map. (f) Initial pancreas region used in our level set method.
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(a) Original image
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(b) Search region
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(c) Edge feature map
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(d) Probability density map
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(e) Initial pancreas region
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(f) Segmentation result
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(g) 3D visulization of pancreas