Hypothesis Validation of Far-Wall Brightness in Carotid-Artery Ultrasound for Feature-Based IMT Measurement Using a Combination of Level-Set Segmentation and Registration.
Filippo MolinariGanapathy KrishnamurthiU. Rajendra AcharyaSubbhuraam Vinitha SreeGuang ZengLuca SabaAndrew NicolaidesJasjit S. SuriPublished in: IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. (2012)
Keyphrases
- carotid artery
- level set segmentation
- ultrasound images
- contrast enhanced
- deformable models
- shape model
- shape prior
- active shape model
- fully automated
- region growing
- manual segmentation
- shape analysis
- magnetic resonance imaging
- level set method
- level set
- image registration
- kernel density estimation
- segmentation result
- speckle noise
- image features
- prior knowledge
- object segmentation
- ground truth