Automatic Lumen Detection on Longitudinal Ultrasound B-Mode Images of the Carotid Using Phase Symmetry.
José RoucoElsa AzevedoAurélio CampilhoPublished in: Sensors (2016)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- carotid artery
- speckle noise
- speckle reduction
- image analysis
- image data
- edge detection
- healthy volunteers
- ground truth
- fully automatic
- ultrasound imaging
- contrast enhanced
- computed tomography angiography
- intravascular ultrasound
- image database
- detection rate
- perspective images
- image registration
- input image
- quantitative measurements
- three dimensional
- image retrieval
- cross sectional
- ultrasound probe
- curvilinear structures
- object recognition
- radio frequency
- segmentation method
- region growing
- symmetry detection
- detection algorithm
- deformable models
- ultrasonic images
- image processing
- bilateral symmetry
- multiscale
- image features
- fully automated