General Tendencies in Segmentation of Medical Ultrasound Images

Abstract

Image segmentation plays an important role in both qualitative and quantitative analysis of medical ultrasound images. But the performance of the classical image-segmentation techniques degrades severely when they are applied to segment medical ultrasound images, for medical ultrasound images have features of poor contrast and strong speckle noise. Firstly, this article investigates and compiles some of the techniques mostly used in the segmentation of medical ultrasound images. Then a bibliographical survey of current research of medical ultrasound images segmentation is given in this paper. Finally, the general tendencies of medical ultrasound images segmentation are presented.