Intravascular ultrasound image segmentation combining polar coordinate modeling and a neural network

Jingyu Liu; Huaiyu Cai; Wenyue Hao; Tingtao Zuo; Zhongwei Jia; Yi Wang; Xiaodong Chen

doi:10.12086/oee.2023.220118

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