Topology Adaptive Deformable Surfaces for Medical Image Volume Segmentation.pdfVIP

840 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING, VOL. 18, NO. 10, OCTOBER 1999 Topology Adaptive Deformable Surfaces for Medical Image Volume Segmentation Tim McInerney,* Member, IEEE , and Demetri Terzopoulos, Member, IEEE Abstract— Deformable models, which include deformable con- inherent connectivity and smoothness that counteracts noise tours (the popular snakes) and deformable surfaces, are a power- and