Lesion Extraction from B-type Ultrasound Image Using Subordinate Degree Region Level Set Method / 生物医学工程学杂志
Journal of Biomedical Engineering
;
(6): 779-787, 2015.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-359541
ABSTRACT
B-type ultrasound images have important applications in medical diagnosis. However, the widely spread intensity inhomogeneity, low-scale contrast, constructed defect, noise and blurred edges all make it difficult to implement automatic segmentation of lesion in the images. Based on region level set method, a subordinate degree region level set model was proposed, in which subordinate degree probability of each pixel was defined to reflect the pixel subjection grade to target and background respectively. Pixels were classified to either target or background by calculation of their subordinate degree probabilities, and edge contour was obtained by region level set iterations. In this paper, lesion segmentation is regarded as local segmentation of specific area, and the calculation is restrained to the local sphere abide by the contour, which greatly reduce the calculation complexity. Experiments on B-type ultrasound images showed improved results of the proposed method compared to those of some popular level set methods.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Algorithms
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Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
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Diagnostic Imaging
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Probability
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Ultrasonography
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Models, Theoretical
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Journal of Biomedical Engineering
Year:
2015
Type:
Article
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