Carotid plaque segmentation from three-dimensional ultrasound images by direct three-dimensional sparse field level-set optimization.
Jieyu ChengYimin ChenYanyan YuBernard ChiuPublished in: Comput. Biol. Medicine (2018)
Keyphrases
- level set
- ultrasound images
- three dimensional
- carotid artery
- active contours
- level set method
- shape prior
- deformable models
- partial differential equations
- image segmentation
- curve evolution
- speckle noise
- medical ultrasound
- ultrasound imaging
- region growing
- region competition
- energy function
- multi view
- edge detection
- fully automated
- energy functional
- x ray
- image sequences
- segmentation result
- signed distance function
- high resolution
- signed distance
- implicit surfaces
- computed tomography
- active contour model
- medical images