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A large number of paradigms to segment 30 MHz intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) subtraction images is evaluated. A fully automated active contour model, initialized by thresholding and preceded by filtering with a large scale median filter is a good alternative for manual delineation of both pre-dilation and post-dilation images. Results obtained with this automated method are even better than manual segmentation, which is a major step forwards in IVUS image analysis.
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Bouma, C.J., Niessen, W.J., Zuiderveld, K.J., Gussenhoven, E.J., Viergever, M.A. (1996). Evaluation of segmentation algorithms for intravascular ultrasound images. In: Höhne, K.H., Kikinis, R. (eds) Visualization in Biomedical Computing. VBC 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0046955
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