Fluid Vector Flow and Applications in Brain Tumor Segmentation
Tao Wang, Irene Cheng, Argha Basu · IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering · 2009
In this paper, we propose a new approach that we call the "fluid vector flow" (FVF) active contour model to address problems of insufficient capture range and poor convergence for concavities. With the ability to capture a large range and extract concave shapes, FVF demonstrates improvements over techniques like gradient vector flow, boundary vector flow, and magnetostatic active contour on three sets of experiments: synthetic images, pediatric head MRI images, and brain tumor MRI images from the Internet brain segmentation repository.