Feature-based fuzzy connectedness segmentation of ultrasound images with an object completion step

Highligts• Novel US segmentation approach based on the fuzzy connectedness framework.• Use of local phase and feature asymmetry to define affinity function.• Shape-based object completion step to detect and complete one or more gaps.• Novel regional entropy-based quantitative image quality assessment approach.• Method performs well across a variety of image qualities from clinical practice.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Medical Image Anal.

• Publication date

  2015-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.media.2015.07.002PMID 26319973PMCID 4686006
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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