An interacting multiple model probabilistic data association filter for cavity boundary extraction from ultrasound images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 772-784

  Abolmaesumi, P ^a   Sirouspour, M R ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundary extraction; CT segmentation; Image processing; IMM PDAF; Medical image segmentation; Medical imaging; Ultrasound image segmentation; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BOUNDARY EXTRACTION; CT SEGMENTATION; IMM/PDAF; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 2942541400     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.826954     Document Type: Article

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