Development and evaluation of a semiautomatic 3D segmentation technique of the carotid arteries from 3D ultrasound images.
Jeremy D. GillHanif M. LadakDavid A. SteinmanAaron FensterPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (1999)
Keyphrases
- semi automatic
- fully automatic
- adaptive thresholding
- segmentation method
- image analysis
- segmentation algorithm
- carotid artery
- edge detection
- image data
- gold standard
- tubular structures
- ultrasound images
- ground truth
- image regions
- input image
- contrast enhanced
- multiscale
- segmented images
- fully automated
- region growing
- image registration
- speckle noise
- image processing
- healthy volunteers
- texture information
- image segmentation
- automatic segmentation
- shape prior
- feature points
- level set