Prior-shape-based segmentation of various objects in ultrasound images after speckle-reduction using level-set based curvature evolution.
Joyoni DeyDennis A. TigheGopal VijayaraghavanVikramjit MitraPeder PedersenPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2006)
Keyphrases
- ultrasound images
- speckle reduction
- level set
- medical ultrasound
- speckle noise
- ultrasound imaging
- anisotropic diffusion
- median filter
- level set method
- multiscale
- partial differential equations
- shape prior
- edge detection
- active contours
- image segmentation
- prostate segmentation
- curve evolution
- moving objects
- edge preserving
- blind deconvolution
- image enhancement
- energy function
- scale space
- input image