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Uterine Fibroid Diagnosis: A Dynamic Approach for Despeckling and Segmentation
Abstract
Uterine fibroids are the most common pelvic tumorsin females. Ultrasonic image segmentation is a difficult problem dueto speckle noise, low contrast, and local changes of intensity.Intensity-based methods do not perform particularly well onultrasound images. However, it has been previously the speckle noiseis removed by the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). Then theseimages respond well to local Phase-Based Level Set methods (PBLS)which are theoretically intensity invariant. The proposed approachperformances are evaluated in terms of accuracy, specificity andsensitivity.
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