Combination of the Level-Set Methods with the Contourlet Transform for the Segmentation of the IVUS Images

Table 1

Quantitative comparison of the results segmented from simulated images.

Borders	Method	MD	RMD
Lumen; boundary	Traditional method	8.582	12.38%
	Proposed method	5.653	8.76%
Media-adventitia boundary	Traditional methods	11.09	16.01%
	Proposed method	7.323	11.31%