General Tendencies in Segmentation of Medical Ultrasound Images

• Published in: 2009 Fourth International Conference on Internet Computing for Science and Engineering pp. 113 - 117
• Main Authors: Changming Zhu, Jun Ni, Yanbo Li, Guochang Gu
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.12.2009
• Subjects: Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Educational institutions; Gray-scale; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Medical diagnostic imaging; Pixel; poor contrast; segmentation techniques; Speckle; speckle noise; Ultrasonic imaging; ultrasound images

Image segmentation plays an important role in both qualitative and quantitative analysis of medical ultrasound images. But the performance of the classical image-segmentation techniques degrades severely when they are applied to segment medical ultrasound images, for medical ultrasound images have f...