An elliptical level set method for automatic TRUS prostate image segmentation

Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 191-196

  Kachouie, Nezamoddin N ^a   Fieguth, Paul ^a   Rahnamayan, Shahryar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automatic image segmentation; Classification; Deformable models; Image morphology; Level sets; Speckle noise; Thresholding; TRUS prostate image; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AUTOMATIC IMAGE SEGMENTATION; DEFORMABLE MODELS; IMAGE MORPHOLOGY; LEVEL SETS; SPECKLE NOISE; THRESHOLDING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 44449170481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2006.270795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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