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: CoRR (2020)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- medical ultrasound
- speckle noise
- ultrasound imaging
- image features
- segmentation algorithm
- image segmentation
- segmentation method
- speckle reduction
- image analysis
- multiscale
- image noise
- grey level
- contrast enhancement
- image edges
- segmented images
- multiplicative noise
- edge detection
- image regions
- input image
- intensity distribution
- additive noise
- noise reduction
- echocardiographic images
- test images
- carotid artery
- low contrast
- pixel level
- single image
- sar images
- morphological filters
- medical images
- segmented regions
- bounding box
- image structure
- textural features
- salt pepper
- imaging artifacts
- synthetic aperture radar
- x ray images
- region growing
- region of interest
- segmentation result
- partial occlusion
- object region
- appearance cues
- energy function
- denoising
- high resolution
- feature vectors