Segmentation of the carotid artery in ultrasound images using frequency-designed B-spline active contour.
José Luis Izquierdo-ZaragozaMaría Consuelo Bastida JumillaRafael Verdú MonederoJuan Morales-SánchezRafael Berenguer-VidalPublished in: ICASSP (2011)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- carotid artery
- b spline
- active contour segmentation
- active contours
- level set
- control points
- speckle noise
- image segmentation
- active contour model
- region growing
- shape prior
- basis functions
- segmentation method
- object boundaries
- edge detection
- contour extraction
- energy function
- least squares
- energy functional
- deformable models
- level set method
- fully automated
- active shape model
- computer vision