超声图像中的斑点噪声,降低图像分辨率和对比度,不利于后续图像处理.本文基于最大后验概率(Maximum A Posteriori,MAP)推导出一种新的超声图像分解算法,将原始超声图像分解为无散斑真实图像和散斑图像.使用六组不同的参数值,对Field II仿真的超声图像进行分解试验,得出算法中比例参数对分解结果的影响规律.用该方法分解三幅人体超声图像,得到的真实图像平滑性好,且能较好的保留细节和边缘.本文提出的分解算法可用于超声图像的去噪,且分解得到的真实图像和散斑图像可用于特征提取、图像分割和图像分类等.
Stroke and heart attack,which could be led by a kind of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease named as atherosclerosis,would seriously cause human morbidity and mortality.It is important for the early stage diagnosis and monitoring medical intervention of the atherosclerosis.Carotid stenosis is a classical atherosclerotic lesion with vessel wall narrowing down and accumulating plaques burden.The carotid artery of intima-media thickness(IMT)is a key indicator to the disease.With the development of computer assisted diagnosis technology,the imaging techniques,segmentation algorithms,measurement methods,and evaluation tools have made considerable progress.Ultrasound imaging,being real-time,economic,reliable,and safe,now seems to become a standard in vascular assessment methodology especially for the measurement of IMT.This review firstly attempts to discuss the clinical relevance of measurements in clinical practice at first,and then followed by the challenges that one has to face when approaching the segmentation of ultrasound images.Secondly,the commonly used methods for the IMT segmentation and measurement are presented.Thirdly,discussion and evaluation of different segmentation techniques are performed.An overview of summary and future perspectives is given finally.
