@inproceedings{ad8e1fececa04ed9b7f8118468d17231,
title = "Multilayer perceptron based level sets for robust ultrasound image segmentation",
abstract = "The class of geometric deformable models, also known as level sets, has brought tremendous impact on medical imagery due to its capability of topology preservation and fast shape recovery. Ultrasound images are often characterized by a high level of speckle causing erroneous detection of contours. This work proposes a new stopping term for level sets, based on the coefficient of variation and a multilayer perceptron, in order to robustly detect the contours in ultrasound images. Successful applications of the MLP-Level Sets to detection of contours on synthetics and real images are presented.",
keywords = "Level sets, Multilayer perceptron, Segmentation, Ultrasound images",
author = "M. Mora and C. Tauber and H. Batatia",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1117/12.708453",
language = "English",
isbn = "081946631X",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
booktitle = "Medical Imaging 2007",
address = "United States",
note = "Medical Imaging 2007 ; Conference date: 18-02-2007 Through 22-02-2007",
}