Automatic 3D segmentation of ultrasound images using atlas registration and statistical texture prior.
Xiaofeng YangDavid M. SchusterViraj MasterPeter NiehAaron FensterBaowei FeiPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image-Guided Procedures (2011)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- multi atlas
- medical ultrasound
- fully automatic
- probabilistic atlas
- echocardiographic images
- atlas based segmentation
- active contour segmentation
- ultrasound imaging
- atlas construction
- carotid artery
- image guidance
- image registration
- speckle noise
- edge detection
- mouse brain
- mr images
- deformation field
- speckle reduction
- registration process
- texture information
- level set
- medical images
- segmentation method
- region growing
- image analysis
- image segmentation
- multiscale
- displacement field
- manual segmentation
- anisotropic diffusion
- active contours
- registration errors
- texture images
- magnetic resonance
- shape prior
- texture features
- deformable models
- gray level