Automated detection of the carotid artery wall in longitudinal B-mode images using active contours initialized by the Hough transform.
Aikaterini I. MatsakouSpyretta GolematiJohn S. StoitsisKonstantina S. NikitaPublished in: EMBC (2011)
Keyphrases
- hough space
- hough transform
- carotid artery
- active contours
- automated detection
- ultrasound images
- segmentation method
- voting method
- tubular structures
- active contour model
- fully automated
- object boundaries
- deformable models
- image segmentation
- speckle noise
- level set
- region growing
- line segments
- image analysis
- edge detection
- manual segmentation
- active shape model
- energy function
- shape prior
- level set method
- automated analysis
- input image
- feature points
- automatic segmentation
- ground truth
- image processing
- energy functional
- fully automatic
- segmentation algorithm
- segmentation result