Bone Feature Segmentation in Ultrasound Spine Image with Robustness to Speckle and Regular Occlusion Noise.
Zixun HuangLi-Wen WangFrank H. F. LeungSunetra BanerjeeDe YangTimothy Tin-Yan LeeJuan LyuSai-Ho LingYong-Ping ZhengPublished in: SMC (2020)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- speckle noise
- medical ultrasound
- ultrasound imaging
- segmentation algorithm
- image features
- segmentation method
- image segmentation
- speckle reduction
- multiscale
- image edges
- edge detection
- echocardiographic images
- multiplicative noise
- grey level
- image noise
- image regions
- image analysis
- test images
- input image
- additive noise
- pixel level
- noise reduction
- salt pepper
- image structure
- segmented regions
- segmented images
- multiple objects
- gaussian noise
- contrast enhancement
- high resolution
- single image
- region growing
- foreground and background
- morphological filters
- intensity distribution
- textural features
- appearance cues
- gray level
- carotid artery
- energy function
- signal to noise ratio
- sar images
- cardiac ultrasound images
- feature vectors
- region of interest
- denoising
- medical images
- object segmentation
- synthetic aperture radar