This Paper offers an innovative way for auto segmentation of the fetal head in
ultrasound US images. There is high amount of noise in US images, which it affects the
visual appearance of the area of head. The research depends on auto segmentation
mechanism without the need for user intervention at any stage of proposed method, so this
is what makes segmentation process is difficult and important at the same, because the
weakness of the edges and not fully enclosed in the desired region. We relied on a Level
Set method to segment the head area, after determining the initial contour automatically by
the Region Properties Function. The proposed method proves effective in the head area
segmentation without being influenced by noise or the existence of discontinuities in the
edges of the head, despite the absence of a pre-processing stage in a series of steps applied
to several ultrasound images in different sizes and sources. The last step is to calculate the
secondary diameter of the output ellipse (the fetal head sector) depending on the properties
of the region, and this final measurement represents the Bi Parietal Diameter BPD, an
important measure enables the physician to assess gestational age and determine the birth
of the fetus date. Segmentation result has been authenticated based on similarity criteria,
and the final measurement accuracy has been compared with manual measurements carried
out by a specialist. The comparison results showed the effectiveness of the proposed
algorithm and its success by up to 98%.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death of women in the world. The early detection gives a
better chance to cure it. Physicians diagnose breast tumors by analyzing the characteristics of the lesion in
ultrasound images. Shape data, provi
ded by a tumor contour, is important to physicians in making
diagnostic decisions. However, due to the increasing use of technology in medicine, a computer aided
detection systems (CAD) have been built to help the expert. This research focuses on using a level-set
method as an effective lesion segmentation method for breast ultrasound images. By applying non-local
means filter on image, the unwanted speckle noise will be removed and the image's important details will
be preserved. Then the initial contours are sketched using the GUI in order to apply level-set method
which delineates the contour of the lesion in breast ultrasound image. The proposed method was found to
determine the breast tumor contours that are very similar to manual-sketched contours (about 96%).
