Open AccessTexture based Clustering Technique for Fetal Ultrasound Image Segmentation
Author(s) -
S. Jayanthi Sree,
V. Kiruthika,
C. Vasanthanayaki
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1916/1/012014
Subject(s) - artificial intelligence , computer vision , image texture , cluster analysis , segmentation , texture (cosmology) , computer science , ultrasound , pattern recognition (psychology) , image segmentation , image (mathematics) , medicine , radiology
Segmentation of fetal ultrasound image is an important and necessary task in the automation of fetal biometric measurement. Fetal ultrasound image segmentation is tedious because of the fuzzy nature and textured appearance of fetal structures. Hence, texture based Clustering is proposed for segmenting fetal ultrasound images. Clustering is performed using texture properties of the images which are used for segmenting ultrasound images of fetus. Texture based clustering technique can be used for segmenting all fetal anatomies specifically abdomen, the boundaries of which are very vague and difficult to delineate. Synthetic, simulated ultrasound images and 120 ultrasound fetal images were used for validating the method achieving an accuracy of 90%.