Automatic segmentation of the lumen of the carotid artery in ultrasound B-mode images.
André Miguel F. SantosJoão Manuel R. S. TavaresLuísa Costa SousaRosa Maria dos SantosPedro CastroElsa AzevedoPublished in: Medical Imaging: Computer-Aided Diagnosis (2013)
Keyphrases
- carotid artery
- manual segmentation
- automatic segmentation
- automatically segmenting
- segmentation algorithm
- accurate segmentation
- contrast enhanced
- ground truth
- ultrasound images
- active shape model
- mr images
- speckle noise
- region growing
- segmented images
- image data
- input image
- magnetic resonance images
- fully automated
- deformable models
- segmentation result
- ct data
- magnetic resonance imaging
- gold standard
- image analysis
- image segmentation
- seed points
- fully automatic
- high quality
- edge detection
- medical images
- graph cuts
- segmentation method
- remote sensing
- region of interest
- shape model