Segmentation and Diagnosis of Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas Based on Generalized Clustering Algorithm in Ultrasound Elastography

Papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTC) are the most common type of thyroid malignant tumors. Existing methods for clustering high-noise ultrasound images tend to degrade the clustering performance. In order to realize accurate segmentation of thyroid nodule in noisy environment, this paper proposes an i...

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Vydáno v:Journal of medical systems Ročník 44; číslo 1; s. 13 - 8
Hlavní autor: Huang, Weiqiang
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York Springer US 01.01.2020
Springer Nature B.V
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ISSN:0148-5598, 1573-689X, 1573-689X
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Shrnutí:Papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTC) are the most common type of thyroid malignant tumors. Existing methods for clustering high-noise ultrasound images tend to degrade the clustering performance. In order to realize accurate segmentation of thyroid nodule in noisy environment, this paper proposes an improved segmentation algorithm based on adaptive fast generalized clustering. Firstly, the parameter balance factor is adaptively determined according to the noise probability of non-local pixels so as to reflect the spatial structure information in the image more accurately. Then, the balance factor is used to effectively combine the linear weighted filtered image in the AFGC algorithm so as to create the adaptive filtered image. Since the filtering degree depends on the probability whether the pixel is noise in the image, the dynamic noise suppression performance of the proposed method can be greatly improved. A large number of qualitative and quantitative experimental results show that the proposed generalized clustering algorithm can obtain more accurate results when clustering images with high noise. It is suitable for intelligent diagnosis of papillary thyroid convolution in clinical examination.
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ISSN:0148-5598
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DOI:10.1007/s10916-019-1462-7