Probability density difference-based active contour for ultrasound image segmentation

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2028-2042

  Liu, Bo ^a   Cheng, H D ^a,b   Huang, Jianhua ^a   Tian, Jiawei ^c   Tang, Xianglong ^a   Liu, Jiafeng ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Utah State University ^*  (United States)

^c HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Active contour; Breast ultrasound (bus) imaging; Image segmentation; Level set; Probability difference

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ACTIVE CONTOURS; BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE; BREAST ULTRASOUND; BREAST ULTRASOUND (BUS) IMAGING; CENTRAL DIFFERENCE; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET APPROACH; LOW CONTRAST; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DIFFERENCE; REINITIALIZATION; SIGNAL/NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BUSES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 76749089534     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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