Spatial anisotropic diffusion and local time correlation applied to segmentation of vessels in ultrasound image sequences

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1549-1552

  Balocco, Simone ^a   Basset, Olivier ^a   Cachard, Christian ^a   Delachartre, Philippe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Intravascular UltraSound (IVUS) image sequences; Segmentation of arteriosclerosis plaque; Speckle reduction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS; ANISOTROPY; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; DIFFUSION; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SPECKLE; TISSUE;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND (IVUS) IMAGE SEQUENCES; SEGMENTATION OF ARTERIOSCLEROSIS PLAQUE; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 4143109438     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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