Automatic needle segmentation in 3D ultrasound images using 3D improved Hough transform.
Hua ZhouWu QiuMingyue DingSonggen ZhangPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image-Guided Procedures (2008)
Keyphrases
- hough transform
- line extraction
- hough space
- circle detection
- voting method
- fully automatic
- segmentation algorithm
- image analysis
- segmentation method
- straight line
- line detection
- edge points
- line segments
- input image
- linear features
- raster images
- adaptive thresholding
- test images
- geometric methods
- generalized hough transform
- lane detection
- bounding box
- image features
- region segmentation
- road signs
- image processing
- image segmentation
- randomized hough transform
- segmentation result
- text lines
- level set
- object recognition
- vanishing points
- ultrasound images
- shape prior
- document images
- natural images
- medical images
- image registration
- vertical lines
- image sequences
- peak detection