Image model plays a critical role in recovering diagnosis-relevant information from noisy observation data. Unlike conventional denoising techniques based on local models, a patch...
Registration of an image, the query or reference, to a database of rotated and translated exemplars constitutes an important image retrieval and indexing application which arises i...
Huzefa Neemuchwala, Alfred O. Hero, Paul L. Carson
A novel active contour model named Variable Background Active Contour model is proposed and applied for the detection of thyroid nodules in ultrasound images. The new model offers ...
Michalis A. Savelonas, Dimitrios E. Maroulis, Dimi...
Segmentation of medical images is challenging due to poor image contrast and artifacts that result in missing or diffuse organ/tissue boundaries. Consequently, this task involves ...
This paper describes a new method for automatic estimation of the contours of the femur and of the cranial cross-section in fetal ultrasound images. Our approach can be described ...