Efficient Artery Segmentation Based on Improved Nonlinear Coherent Diffusion Speckle Denoising in Ultrasound Heart Images.
Yonghui GaoJie YangLv GuoPublished in: IPCV (2009)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- medical ultrasound
- speckle noise
- echocardiographic images
- nonlinear diffusion
- denoising
- speckle reduction
- carotid artery
- ultrasound imaging
- segmentation algorithm
- nonlinear filtering
- cardiac ultrasound images
- scalar valued
- anisotropic diffusion
- segmentation method
- vector valued images
- cardiac magnetic resonance
- edge detection
- input image
- heart wall
- diffusion coefficient
- image analysis
- image regions
- image denoising
- diffusion processes
- fully automatic
- gaussian noise
- image segmentation
- sar images
- total variation
- partial differential equations
- contrast enhancement
- level set
- left ventricle
- short axis
- noisy images
- prostate segmentation
- image enhancement
- edge preserving
- natural images
- medical images