A Review of Algorithms for Medical Image Segmentation and their Applications to...

• Author(s): Zhen Ma ; João Manuel R. S.Tavares ; Renato Natal Jorge ; T. Mascarenhas
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/21478
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Ciências Tecnológicas
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

This paper aims to make a review on the current segmentation algorithms used for medical images. Algorithms are classified according to their principal methodologies, namely the ones based on thresholds, the ones based on clustering techniques and the ones based on deformable models. The last type is focused due to the intensive investigations on the deformable models that have been done in the last few decades. Typical algorithms of each type are discussed and the main ideas, application fields, advantages and disadvantages of each type are summarized. Experiments that apply these algorithms to segment the organs and tissues of the female pelvic cavity are presented to further illustrate their distinct characteristics. In the end the main guidelines that should be considered for designing the segmentation algorithms of the pelvic cavity are proposed.