Segmentation in Ultrasonic B-Mode Images of Healthy Carotid Arteries Using Mixtures of Nakagami Distributions and Stochastic Optimization - Destrempes, F.; Meunier, J.; Giroux, M.-F.; Soulez, G.; Cloutier, G. (IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2009)
Keywords: Algorithms; B -mode; Bayes Theorem; Bayesian model; Blood; Carotid arteries; Carotid Arteries - diagnostic imaging; carotid artery; Distributed computing; Elasticity; expectation maximization (EM) algorithm; exploration selection algorithm; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Image segmentation; Maximum a posteriori estimation; Maximum likelihood estimation; mixtures of gamma distributions; mixtures of Nakagami distributions; Models, Statistical; Nakagami distribution; segmentation; stochastic optimization; Stochastic Processes; Studies; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonography - methods; ultrasound; Exploration Selection algorithm; B-mode; Bayesian model; mixtures of gamma distributions; segmentation; Expectation Maximization algorithm; carotid artery; ultrasound; mixtures of Nakagami distributions; stochastic optimization