Thyroid region prior guided attention for ultrasound segmentation of thyroid nodules.
Haifan GongJiaxin ChenGuanqi ChenHaofeng LiGuanbin LiFei ChenPublished in: Comput. Biol. Medicine (2023)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- ultrasound imaging
- echocardiographic images
- optimal segmentation
- carotid artery
- medical diagnosis
- segmented images
- lung nodules
- segmentation algorithm
- image segmentation
- region segmentation
- region based active contours
- homogeneous regions
- edge detection
- grey level
- level set
- image regions
- segmented regions
- boundary information
- segmentation result
- region growing
- prior information
- normal tissue
- multiscale
- active contours
- shape prior
- energy function
- image analysis
- segmentation method
- computer aided diagnosis
- ct images
- foreground and background
- prior knowledge
- volume data
- accurate segmentation
- region boundaries
- chest radiographs
- watershed transformation
- lung cancer
- maximum a posteriori
- medical images