Detection of the intima and media layer thickness of ultrasound common carotid artery image using efficient active contour segmentation technique.
N. SanthiyakumariP. RajendranM. MadheswaranS. SureshPublished in: Medical Biol. Eng. Comput. (2011)
Keyphrases
- carotid artery
- ultrasound images
- active contour segmentation
- adaptive thresholding
- speckle noise
- image data
- fully automated
- edge detection
- multiscale
- region growing
- deformable models
- image segmentation
- segmentation method
- object detection
- input image
- image analysis
- image processing
- feature points
- energy function
- detection method
- multiple objects
- manual segmentation
- gray value
- moving objects