Segmentation of intravascular ultrasound images: a machine learning approach mimicking human vision.
Mark E. OlszewskiAndreas WahleSteven C. MitchellMilan SonkaPublished in: CARS (2004)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- human vision
- echocardiographic images
- medical ultrasound
- active contour segmentation
- ultrasound imaging
- carotid artery
- edge detection
- speckle noise
- human visual system
- computer vision
- speckle reduction
- segmentation algorithm
- color constancy
- human perception
- biologically inspired
- multiscale
- image segmentation
- visual search
- segmentation method
- visual cortex
- fully automatic
- object recognition
- segmented images
- image quality
- feature extraction