Segmentation in Ultrasonic B-Mode Images of Healthy Carotid Arteries Using Mixtures of Nakagami Distributions and Stochastic Optimization.
François DestrempesJean MeunierMarie-France GirouxGilles SoulezGuy CloutierPublished in: IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging (2009)
Keyphrases
- carotid artery
- stochastic optimization
- adaptive thresholding
- healthy volunteers
- segmentation algorithm
- segmentation method
- contrast enhanced
- ultrasound images
- region growing
- image analysis
- speckle noise
- image regions
- fully automatic
- image data
- edge detection
- ground truth
- input image
- segmented images
- multistage
- image registration
- image segmentation
- energy function
- segmentation result
- multiple objects
- fully automated
- deformable models
- medical images
- parametric models
- robust optimization
- gray value
- manual segmentation
- object segmentation
- random variables