A novel automatic algorithm for the segmentation of the lumen of the carotid artery in ultrasound B-mode images

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 6570-6579

  Santos, André Miguel F ^a   Dos Santos, Rosa Maria ^b   Castro, Pedro Miguel A C ^b   Azevedo, Elsa ^b   Sousa, Luísa ^b   Tavares, João Manuel R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Chan Vese model; Image segmentation; Internal and external carotid arteries; Medical imaging; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERS; AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; CHAN-VESE MODEL; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERIES; LEVEL SET SEGMENTATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84880057031     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.06.003     Document Type: Article

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