A model based contour searching method

A two-step model based approach to a contour extraction problem is developed to provide a solution to more challenging contour extraction problems of biomedical images. A biomedical contour image is initially processed by a deformable contour method to obtain a first order approximation of the contour. The two-step model includes a linked contour model and a posteriori probability model. Initially, the output contour from the deformable contour method is matched against the linked contour model for both model detection and corresponding landmark contour points identification. Segments obtained from these landmarks are matched for errors. Larger error are then passed on to a regionalized a posteriori probability model for further fine tuning to obtain a final result. Experiments on both MR brain images are most encouraging.