The presence of speckle in ultrasound images makes it hard to segment them using active contours. Speckle causes the energy function of the active contours to have many local minim...
20 To 50 percent of the neonates with a very low birth weight (VLBW:< 1500 g) suffer from White Matter Damage (leukomalacia). Nowadays the diagnosis of WMD is still solely depe...
Gjenna Stippel, Ivana Duskunovic, Wilfried Philips...
Cardiac parameters such as end-systolic volume, ejection fraction and myocardial mass are essential to the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Traditionally, ...
Alla Aksel, Robert L. Janiczek, John A. Hossack, B...
Four-dimensional ultrasound based on matrix phased array transducers can capture the complex 4D cardiac motion in a complete and real-time fashion. However, the large amount of in...
Qi Duan, Elsa D. Angelini, Shunichi Homma, Andrew ...
In recent years, the eld of active-contour based image segmentation have seen the emergence of two competing approaches. The rst and oldest approach represents active contours in ...