Segmentation of ultrasound images using a spatially coherent generalized Rayleigh mixture model.
Marcelo PereyraNicolas DobigeonHadj BatatiaJean-Yves TourneretPublished in: EUSIPCO (2011)
Keyphrases
- mixture model
- ultrasound images
- medical ultrasound
- echocardiographic images
- ultrasound imaging
- active contour segmentation
- carotid artery
- gaussian mixture model
- em algorithm
- speckle noise
- probabilistic model
- edge detection
- speckle reduction
- generative model
- dirichlet distribution
- expectation maximization
- segmentation algorithm
- maximum likelihood
- segmentation method
- language model
- model selection
- probability density function
- image segmentation
- medical images
- gaussian distribution
- level set
- unsupervised learning
- volume data
- background subtraction
- left ventricle
- noise reduction
- medical imaging
- information retrieval
- active contours