%0 Journal Article %T Region and boundary feature estimation on ultrasound images using moment invariants. %+ Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image (LTSI) %+ Centre de Recherche en Information Biomédicale sino-français (CRIBS) %+ Laboratory of Image Science and Technology [Nanjing] (LIST) %A Wu, Ke %A Shu, Huazhong %A Dillenseger, Jean-Louis %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0169-2607 %J Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine %I Elsevier %V 113 %N 2 %P 446-455 %8 2014-02 %D 2014 %R 10.1016/j.cmpb.2013.10.016 %M 24304936 %K image processing %K texture analysis %K graph cut %K moments %K prostate %K ultrasound imaging %K segmentation %Z Life Sciences [q-bio]/Bioengineering %Z Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing %Z Computer Science [cs]/Signal and Image Processing %Z Life Sciences [q-bio]/Bioengineering/ImagingJournal articles %X : In ultrasound images, tissues are characterized by their speckle texture. Moment-based techniques have proven their ability to capture texture features. However, in ultrasound images, the speckle size increases with the distance from the probe and in some cases the speckle has a concentric texture arrangement. We propose to use moment invariants with respect to image scale and rotation to capture the texture in such cases. Results on synthetic data show that moment invariants are able to characterize the texture but also that some moment orders are sensitive to regions and, moreover, some are sensitive to the boundaries between two different textures. This behavior seems to be very interesting to be used within some segmentation scheme dealing with a combination of regional and boundary information. In this paper we will try to prove the usability of this complementary information in a min-cut/max-flow graph cut scheme. %G English %2 https://inserm.hal.science/inserm-00935303/document %2 https://inserm.hal.science/inserm-00935303/file/moment-cmpb.pdf %L inserm-00935303 %U https://inserm.hal.science/inserm-00935303 %~ INSERM %~ UNIV-RENNES1 %~ LTSI %~ CRIBS %~ UR1-HAL %~ UR1-MATH-STIC %~ TEST-UNIV-RENNES %~ TEST-UR-CSS %~ UNIV-RENNES %~ UR1-MATH-NUM %~ UR1-BIO-SA