Combinatorial active contour bilateral filter for ultrasound image segmentation
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Image segmentation is one of the earliest and most important stages of image processing and plays an important role in both qualitative and quantitative analysis of medical ultrasound images but ultrasound images have low level of contrast and are corrupted with strong speckle noise. Due to these effects, segmentation of ultrasound images is very challenging and traditional image segmentation m...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Imaging
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2329-4302
DOI: 10.1117/1.jmi.7.5.057003