Segmentation of Plaques in Sequences of Ultrasonic B-Mode Images of Carotid Arteries Based on Motion Estimation and a Bayesian Model.
François DestrempesJean MeunierMarie-France GirouxGilles SoulezGuy CloutierPublished in: IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. (2011)
Keyphrases
- carotid artery
- adaptive thresholding
- bayesian model
- ultrasound images
- contrast enhanced
- speckle noise
- segmentation algorithm
- region growing
- segmentation method
- motion estimation
- deformable models
- segmented images
- edge detection
- segmentation result
- fully automated
- manual segmentation
- image analysis
- image data
- fully automatic
- ground truth
- image segmentation
- active shape model
- image sequences
- optical flow
- multiscale
- input image
- low contrast
- automatic segmentation
- sar images
- bayesian framework
- denoising
- magnetic resonance imaging
- bayesian inference
- shape prior
- gray value
- prior information
- video sequences