Segmentation of the carotid intima-media region in B-mode ultrasound images.
Rui RochaAurélio C. CampilhoJorge Alves SilvaElsa AzevedoRosa Maria dos SantosPublished in: Image Vis. Comput. (2010)
Keyphrases
- carotid artery
- ultrasound images
- optimal segmentation
- speckle noise
- segmentation result
- fully automated
- contrast enhanced
- edge detection
- multimedia
- region segmentation
- deformable models
- region growing
- segmented images
- segmentation method
- image segmentation
- image regions
- grey level
- segmentation algorithm
- gradient information
- segmented regions
- active shape model
- region matching
- homogeneous regions
- level set
- boundary information
- accurate segmentation
- multiscale
- vessel segmentation
- level set framework
- fully automatic
- x ray
- manual segmentation
- magnetic resonance images