An efficient SOM and EM-based intravascular ultrasound blood vessel image segmentation approach.
Arti TanejaPriya RanjanAmit UjlayanPublished in: Int. J. Syst. Assur. Eng. Manag. (2016)
Keyphrases
- cross sectional
- blood vessels
- image segmentation
- intravascular ultrasound
- vessel segmentation
- expectation maximization
- low contrast
- multiscale
- k means
- graph cuts
- vessel detection
- retinal images
- markov random field
- level set method
- deformable models
- region growing
- segmentation algorithm
- image analysis
- segmentation method
- gray level
- deformation field
- cross section
- feature vectors
- post mortem
- image processing
- computer vision
- region of interest
- energy functional
- level set
- mutual information
- similarity measure
- tissue characterization