Extraction of media and plaque boundaries in intravascular ultrasound images by level sets and min/max flow.
Ali IskurtYasar BecerikliPublished in: Expert Syst. J. Knowl. Eng. (2010)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- level set
- max flow
- carotid artery
- energy minimization
- curve evolution
- active contours
- energy function
- object boundaries
- speckle noise
- level set method
- image segmentation
- partial differential equations
- shape prior
- graph cuts
- edge detection
- energy functional
- connected components
- variational methods
- active contour model
- deformable models
- parameter estimation