Sixth IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'02)
FASU: A Full Automatic Segmenting System for Ultrasound Images
Orlando, Florida
December 03-December 04
ISBN: 0-7695-1858-3
In this paper, we propose a novel segmenting system for ultrasound images. This solution is separated into three steps. First, we filter noise by using the "peak-and- valley" with scanning pixels along the Hilbert curve. Then we use the "Cubic Spline Interpolation" between local peaks and valleys to smooth the image. Second, we present windows adaptive threshold, to eliminate trial and error, as the method for obtaining the right threshold for beginning segmentation. Third, we label distinct, disconnected objects and use our "core area" to detect the object of interest based on the feature knowledge bases. Our method was experimented with liver ultrasound images. We compared the orientation and centroid feature vectors of our Full Automatic Segmenting Ultrasound (FASU) method with the manual segmentation method. The results are fully automatic and confirm the accuracy of our FASU method.
Index Terms:
Ultrasound image segmentation, Image smoothing, peak-and-valley, Hilbert curve, windows adaptive threshold, core area, Cubic Spline Interpolation
Citation:
Nualsawat Hiransakolwong, Piotr S. Windyga, Kien A. Hua, Khanh Vu, "FASU: A Full Automatic Segmenting System for Ultrasound Images," wacv, pp.90, Sixth IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'02), 2002