A dual-snake model of high penetrability for ultrasound image boundary extraction

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1651-1665

  Chen, Chung Ming ^a   Lu, Henry Horng Shing ^a   Hsiao, An Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Boundary extraction; Connected components; Deformable model; Discrete gradient glow; Dual snake model; Stability; Ultrasound images

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; DEFORMATION;

DISCRETE GRADIENT FLOW;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EVALUATION; EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NOISE; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035709139     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(01)00484-7     Document Type: Article

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