GUI for CT image segmentation via active contours
Veska M. Georgieva, Svetoslav S. Ermakov · 2016
The anatomical structures that appear in magnetic resonance (MR) or computed tomography (CT) scans are extracted or segmented from the image for use in surgical planning, navigation, simulation, diagnosis, and therapy evaluation. The paper presents software for segmentation in sequences of medical images via active contours and its graphic user interface (GUI). It works in the MATLAB environment and uses IMAGE TOOLBOXES defined functions. Two different models for active contour or snake models are used, which are based on geodesic active contour and contour without edges. The program proposes also an interactive option to choose specific parameters and works with the region of interest (ROI) in the processed image, which is selected from the sequence. The proposed GUI can be applied in eHealth for real medical images attempt to make diagnostic more precise. The presented GUI is suitable also to engineering education for studying of this processing.