Title: Implicit active contour guided by texture characteristics for infra tentorial tumours segmentation

Authors: Oussama Bouraoui; Bornia Tighiouart

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, LRI Laboratory, Badji Mokhtar, Annaba University, 23000, Algeria ' Department of Computer Science, LRI Laboratory, Badji Mokhtar, Annaba University, 23000, Algeria

Abstract: In this paper we propose an implicit active contour for infra-tentorial tumour segmentation guided by texture characteristics. This work proceeds within the therapeutic procedures guided by imaging to optimise the treatment of these tumours while preserving surrounding healthy tissue.

Keywords: image segmentation; infra tentorial tumours; MRI; magnetic resonance imaging; texture; level sets; implicit active contours; tumour lesions; brain tumours; posterior fossa tumours; medical images.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBET.2016.076605

International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 2016 Vol.20 No.4, pp.302 - 311

Received: 20 Jan 2015
Accepted: 06 Sep 2015
Published online: 17 May 2016 *

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