Ultrasound image segmentation: a survey

JA Noble, D Boukerroui - IEEE Transactions on medical …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews ultrasound segmentation methods, in a broad sense, focusing on
techniques developed for medical B-mode ultrasound images. First, we present a review of …

Breast ultrasound image segmentation: a survey

Q Huang, Y Luo, Q Zhang - … journal of computer assisted radiology and …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women worldwide.
Ultrasound imaging is one of the most frequently used diagnostic tools to detect and classify …

SMU-Net: Saliency-guided morphology-aware U-Net for breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound image

Z Ning, S Zhong, Q Feng, W Chen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning methods, especially convolutional neural networks, have been successfully
applied to lesion segmentation in breast ultrasound (BUS) images. However, pattern …

Global guidance network for breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound images

C Xue, L Zhu, H Fu, X Hu, X Li, H Zhang… - Medical image analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Automatic breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound helps to diagnose breast cancer, which
is one of the dreadful diseases that affect women globally. Segmenting breast regions …

Segmentation of breast ultrasound image with semantic classification of superpixels

Q Huang, Y Huang, Y Luo, F Yuan, X Li - Medical Image Analysis, 2020 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is a great threat to females. Ultrasound imaging has been applied extensively
in diagnosis of breast cancer. Due to the poor image quality, segmentation of breast …

Attention-enriched deep learning model for breast tumor segmentation in ultrasound images

A Vakanski, M **an, PE Freer - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Incorporating human domain knowledge for breast tumor diagnosis is challenging because
shape, boundary, curvature, intensity or other common medical priors vary significantly …

Automatic breast ultrasound image segmentation: A survey

M **an, Y Zhang, HD Cheng, F Xu, B Zhang, J Ding - Pattern Recognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death among women worldwide. In
clinical routine, automatic breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation is very challenging …

Deep learning based classification of breast tumors with shear-wave elastography

Q Zhang, Y **ao, W Dai, J Suo, C Wang, J Shi… - Ultrasonics, 2016 - Elsevier
This study aims to build a deep learning (DL) architecture for automated extraction of
learned-from-data image features from the shear-wave elastography (SWE), and to evaluate …

C-Net: Cascaded convolutional neural network with global guidance and refinement residuals for breast ultrasound images segmentation

G Chen, Y Dai, J Zhang - Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Background and objective Breast lesions segmentation is an important step of computer-
aided diagnosis system. However, speckle noise, heterogeneous structure, and similar …

Automatic tumor segmentation in breast ultrasound images using a dilated fully convolutional network combined with an active contour model

Y Hu, Y Guo, Y Wang, J Yu, J Li, S Zhou… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Due to the low contrast, blurry boundaries, and large amount of shadows in breast
ultrasound (BUS) images, automatic tumor segmentation remains a challenging task. Deep …