A Novel Coarse-to-fine Level Set Framework for Ultrasound Image Segmentation
Proceeding: Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR2015)Publication Date: 2015-04-16
Authors : Jinze Yu; Pheng-Ann Heng; Weiming Wang; Jing Qin;
Page : 8-17
Keywords : Ultrasound Image Segmentation; Chan-Vese Model; Sobolev Gradient; Speckle Noise; Speckle Reducing Anisotropic Diffusion; Coarse-to-fine; Low Contrast;
Abstract
Ultrasound image segmentation is a fundamental but undoubtedly challenging problem in many medical applications due to various unpleasant artifacts, e.g., noise, low contrast and intensity inhomogeneity. This paper presents a coarse-to-fine framework for ultrasound image segmentation based on a pre-processing step via speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion (SRAD) and a modified version of Chan-Vese model by modifying the evolution functional equipped by Sobolev gradient. SRAD is a diffusion method tailored for ultrasound imaging denoising, and it is adopted here to construct a despeckled image which allows us to obtain a coarse segmentation of the input image by carrying out our proposed CV model. This coarse segmentation will be further adopted to our level set model as a constraint to guide the fine segmentation. We compare the proposed model with some famous region-based level set methods. Experimental results in both synthetic and clinical ultrasound images validate the high accuracy and robustness of our approach, indicating its potential for practical applications in ultrasound imaging.
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