A novel automatic algorithm for the segmentation of the lumen of the carotid artery in ultrasound B-mode images.
André Miguel F. SantosRosa Maria dos SantosPedro Miguel A. C. CastroElsa AzevedoLuísa Costa SousaJoão Manuel R. S. TavaresPublished in: Expert Syst. Appl. (2013)
Keyphrases
- carotid artery
- adaptive thresholding
- segmentation algorithm
- ultrasound images
- speckle reduction
- segmentation method
- test images
- tubular structures
- region growing
- image segmentation
- contrast enhanced
- speckle noise
- manual segmentation
- fully automatic
- ground truth
- fully automated
- active shape model
- image analysis
- automatic segmentation
- segmentation result
- semi automatic
- deformable models
- edge detection
- segmented images
- seed points
- input image
- final result
- gray value
- magnetic resonance imaging
- image registration
- mr images
- energy function
- object detection