Bayes Clustering and Structural Support Vector Machines for Segmentation of Carotid Artery Plaques in Multicontrast MRI. (19th December 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Guan, Qiu; Du, Bin; Teng, Zhongzhao; Gillard, Jonathan; Chen, Shengyong
• Other Names: Cattani Carlo Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Computational and mathematical methods in medicine. Volume 2012(2012)
• Publication Date: 2012-12-19
• Subjects: Medicine -- Computer simulation -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Mathematical models -- Periodicals; 610.11
• DOI: 10.1155/2012/549102
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1748-670X

Abstract

Abstract : Accurate segmentation of carotid artery plaque in MR images is not only a key part but also an essential step for in vivo plaque analysis. Due to the indistinct MR images, it is very difficult to implement the automatic segmentation. Two kinds of classification models, that is, Bayes clustering and SSVM, are introduced in this paper to segment the internal lumen wall of carotid artery. The comparative experimental results show the segmentation performance of SSVM is better than Bayes.