Title
Left ventricle USG image segmentation using active contour model
Abstract
In the paper novel application of active contour without edges method to left ventricle segmentation in ultrasound echocardiographic images is presented. In the proposed approach detection of informative image part and limitation of segmentation area is done by means of Hough transform what guarantees stability and correctness of the segmentation algorithm working on border between object and background with small absolute value of image gradient. Additionally, in order to increase image quality, speckle noise anisotropic diffusion filtering was applied to input noisy data. Preliminary quantitative results for artificial USG-like images and visual ones for real echocardiographic data are presented in the paper. (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.procs.2010.04.306
Procedia Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Image segmentation,Active Contour,Echocardiograpy,Left Ventricle
Active contour model,Computer vision,Image gradient,Scale-space segmentation,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Computer science,Segmentation-based object categorization,Hough transform,Image quality,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
1
1
1877-0509
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.40
16
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A. Skalski150.40
P. Turcza2183.32
Tomasz P. Zielinski36217.33
J. Królczyk450.40
T. Grodzicki550.40