This paper reviews ultrasound segmentation methods, in a broad sense, focusing on
techniques developed for medical B-mode ultrasound images. First, we present a review of …

Ultrasound (US) imaging for medical purposes has been increasing in popularity over the
years. The US technology has some valuable strengths, such as it is harmless, very cheap …

Displayed ultrasound (US) B-mode images often exhibit tissue intensity inhomogeneities
dominated by nonuniform beam attenuation within the body. This is a major problem for …

In the automatic segmentation of echocardiographic images, a priori shape knowledge has
been used to compensate for poor features in ultrasound images. This shape knowledge is …

In this paper we address the problem of spatio-temporal acoustic boundary detection in
echocardiography. We propose a phase-based feature detection method to be used as the …

When performing block-matching based motion estimation with the ML estimator, one would
try to match blocks from the two images, within a predefined search area. The estimated …

Stroke is one of the prominent causes of death in the recent days. The existence of
susceptible plaque in the carotid artery can be used in ascertaining the possibilities of …

In this study, we made use of the discrete active contour model to overcome the natural
properties of ultrasound (US) images, speckle, noise and tissue-related textures, to segment …

Image segmentation is a fundamental but undoubtedly challenging problem in many
applications due to various imaging artifacts, eg, noise, intensity inhomogeneity and low …

This paper presents a novel segmentation technique for extracting cavity contours from
ultrasound images. The problem is first discretized by projecting equispaced radii from an …