This paper presents the developement of a novel, fullyautomatic tracking and segmentation system to extract the boundary of the carotid artery from ultrasound images in real-time....
Purang Abolmaesumi, Mohammad Reza Sirouspour, S. E...
Acoustic shadows appear in ultrasound images as regions of low signal intensity after boundaries with very high acoustic impedance differences. Acoustic shadows can be viewed as i...
D. Louis Collins, Pierre Hellier, Pierre Meyer, Pi...
Atherosclerosis is a cardiovascular disease very widespread into population. It is characterized by a thickening of the arterial walls, which affects blood flow. The intima-media...
Segmentation of arterial wall boundaries from intravascular images is an important problem for many applications in the study of plaque characteristics, mechanical properties of t...
Gozde B. Unal, S. Bucher, Stephane G. Carlier, Gre...
In this paper, we present a new method for segmenting closed contours and surfaces. Our work builds on a variant of the Fast Marching algorithm. First, an initial point on the des...