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

Table 2

Quantitative comparison of results segmented from real images.

Borders	Method	MD	RMD
Lumen; boundary	Traditional method	7.7345	11.21%
	Proposed method	4.5627	6.30%
Media-adventitia boundary	Traditional methods	9.1550	13.27%
	Proposed method	5.3996	7.46%