Segmentation and Measurements of Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Ultrasound Images Using the Improved Convolutional Neural Network and Support Vector Machine.
Dequan GuoGexiang ZhangHui PengJianying YuanPrithwineel PaulKechang FuMing ZhuPublished in: J. Medical Imaging Health Informatics (2021)
Keyphrases
- carotid artery
- ultrasound images
- convolutional neural network
- support vector machine
- medical ultrasound
- speckle noise
- active contour segmentation
- echocardiographic images
- ultrasound imaging
- deformable models
- region growing
- multi class
- fully automated
- face detection
- edge detection
- feature vectors
- manual segmentation
- magnetic resonance imaging
- markov random field
- shape prior
- mr images
- active contours