Supervised machine learning tools: a tutorial for clinicians

LL Vercio, K Amador, JJ Bannister… - Journal of Neural …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In an increasingly data-driven world, artificial intelligence is expected to be a key tool for
converting big data into tangible benefits and the healthcare domain is no exception to this …

Total variation regularization algorithms for images corrupted with different noise models: a review

P Rodríguez - Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Total Variation (TV) regularization has evolved from an image denoising method for images
corrupted with Gaussian noise into a more general technique for inverse problems such as …

Feature enhancement in medical ultrasound videos using contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization

P Singh, R Mukundan, R De Ryke - Journal of digital imaging, 2020 - Springer
Speckle noise reduction algorithms are extensively used in the field of ultrasound image
analysis with the aim of improving image quality and diagnostic accuracy. However …

Particle swarm optimized fuzzy CNN with quantitative feature fusion for ultrasound image quality identification

MM Hossain, MM Hasan, MA Rahim… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inherently ultrasound images are susceptible to noise which leads to several image quality
issues. Hence, rating of an image's quality is crucial since diagnosing diseases requires …

Despeckle filtering software toolbox for ultrasound imaging of the common carotid artery

CP Loizou, C Theofanous, M Pantziaris… - Computer methods and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Ultrasound imaging of the common carotid artery (CCA) is a non-invasive tool used in
medicine to assess the severity of atherosclerosis and monitor its progression through time …

Performance evaluation of 67 denoising filters in ultrasound images: A systematic comparison analysis

AA Ardakani, A Mohammadi, F Faeghi… - … Journal of Imaging …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Noise corrupts ultrasound images and degrades spatial and contrast resolutions. Hence, it is
challenging to characterize the lesions precisely using ultrasound images. The present …

Segmentation of arterial walls in intravascular ultrasound cross-sectional images using extremal region selection

M Faraji, I Cheng, I Naudin, A Basu - Ultrasonics, 2018 - Elsevier
Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) is an intra-operative imaging modality that facilitates
observing and appraising the vessel wall structure of the human coronary arteries …

Effect of despeckle filtering on classification of breast tumors using ultrasound images

J Virmani, R Agarwal - Biocybernetics and biomedical engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Ultrasound is the most widely used imaging modality for screening of breast tumors.
However, due to the presence of speckle noise in an ultrasound image, the diagnostic …

A review of noninvasive ultrasound image processing methods in the analysis of carotid plaque morphology for the assessment of stroke risk

EC Kyriacou, C Pattichis, M Pattichis… - IEEE Transactions …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Noninvasive ultrasound imaging of carotid plaques allows for the development of plaque-
image analysis methods associated with the risk of stroke. This paper presents several …

An integrated method for atherosclerotic carotid plaque segmentation in ultrasound image

C Qian, X Yang - Computer methods and programs in biomedicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Background and objective Carotid artery atherosclerosis is an important cause of stroke.
Ultrasound imaging has been widely used in the diagnosis of atherosclerosis. Therefore …