Anisotropic diffusion filter based edge enhancement for the segmentation of carotid intima-media layer in ultrasound images using variational level set method without re-initialisation.
Sumathi KrishnaswamyAnandh Kilpattu RamaniharanMahesh VeezhinathanS. RamakrishnanPublished in: EMBC (2014)
Keyphrases
- edge enhancement
- carotid artery
- ultrasound images
- fourier analysis
- anisotropic diffusion
- edge detection
- noise reduction
- speckle noise
- region growing
- edge preserving
- medical ultrasound
- ultrasound imaging
- deformable models
- partial differential equations
- noisy images
- multiscale
- image processing
- speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion
- signal to noise ratio
- speckle reduction
- fully automated
- manual segmentation
- natural images
- level set
- edge detector
- energy functional
- active shape model
- image enhancement
- segmentation method
- multiresolution
- image analysis
- image segmentation