Title :
Geometric Active Contour Model and its Application to Carotid Plaque Detection
Author :
Cheng, Jieyu ; Ding, Mingyue ; Zhang, Xuming
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. of Image Process. & Intell. Control, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
This paper gives an overview of three different geometric active contour models with the focus on the application to carotid plaque detection from cross-sectional ultrasound images of the carotid artery. On one hand, basic principles of these geometric active contour models are presented. On the other hand, performance of these models are tested on 16 images and compared with the manual delineations.
Keywords :
biomedical ultrasonics; blood vessels; geometry; medical image processing; object detection; ultrasonic imaging; carotid artery; carotid plaque detection; cross-sectional ultrasound images; geometric active contour model; Active contours; Computational modeling; Image segmentation; Level set; Manuals; Solid modeling; Ultrasonic imaging; carotid plaque detection; geometric active contour models; ultrasound;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Computation and Bio-Medical Instrumentation (ICBMI), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan, Hubei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1152-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICBMI.2011.62
