3D ultrasound image segmentation using multiple incomplete feature sets
Liexiang Fan, David M. Herrington, Peter Santago · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1999
We use three features, the intensity, texture and motion to obtain robust results for segmentation of intracoronary ultrasound images. Using a parameterized equation to describe the lumen-plaque and media-adventitia boundaries, we formulate the segmentation as a parameter estimation through a cost functional based on the posterior probability, which can handle the incompleteness of the features in ultrasound images by employing outlier detection.