Carotid ultrasound segmentation using radio-frequency derived phase information and gabor filters

• Published in: 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) Vol. 2015; pp. 6338 - 6341
• Main Authors: Azzopardi, Carl, Camilleri, Kenneth P., Hicks, Yulia A.
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.01.2015
• Subjects: Adult; Algorithms; Brightness; Carotid Arteries - diagnostic imaging; Carotid Artery; Demodulation; Feature extraction; Gabor filters; Gabor Texture Filters; Humans; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Image segmentation; Phase Information; Radio frequency; Radio Waves; Radio-Frequency Signals; Segmentation; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonography; Ultrasound

Ultrasound image segmentation is a field which has garnered much interest over the years. This is partially due to the complexity of the problem, arising from the lack of contrast between different tissue types which is quite typical of ultrasound images. Recently, segmentation techniques which trea...