An efficient segmentation method for ultrasound images based on a semi-supervised approach and patch-based features

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 969-972

  Ciurte, A ^a,b   Houhou, N ^b   Nedevschi, S ^a   Pica, A ^c   Munier, F L ^d   Thiran, J Ph ^b   Bresson, X ^e   Bach Cuadra, M ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d HÔPITAL OPHTALMIQUE JULES GONIN   (Switzerland)

^e CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

active shape model; bipartite graph; image segmentation; retinopathy; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS; BIPARTITE GRAPH; CLINICAL DATA; DATA FEATURE; GROUND TRUTH; IMAGE PATCHES; MEDICAL EXPERTS; RETINOPATHY; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SPECKLE NOISE; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION METHOD; USER LABELS;

ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 80055052428     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2011.5872564     Document Type: Conference Paper

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