A snake-based method for segmentation of intravascular ultrasound images and its in vivo validation

Ultrasonics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 181-189

  Zhu, Xinjian ^a,b   Zhang, Pengfei ^c   Shao, Jinhua ^a   Cheng, Yuanzhi ^a   Zhang, Yun ^c   Bai, Jing ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Balloon snake; GVF snake; Intravascular ultrasound; Nonlinear filtering; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BALLOON SNAKE; CRITICAL POINTS; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; GVF SNAKE; IN-VIVO; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGES; LOCAL ENERGY MINIMA; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SNAKE MODEL; VESSEL WALLS;

BALLOONS; CURVE FITTING; NONLINEAR FILTERING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; DISEASE MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RABBIT; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 78649331912     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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