Research on Segmentation of Lymphatic Ultrasonic Images Based on the Spectral Cluster Ensemble

A novel ultrasound image segmentation algorithm,which is based on the spectral cluster ensemble,is proposed to segment ultrasound images with low SNR.Firstly,the improved total variation model is used to eliminate noise in ultrasound.Then cluster ensemble approach which integrates K-means clusters and improved spectral cluster algorithm,is applied to segment ultrasound images.At last,the segmentation result is clustered again using K-means cluster to get the ultimate segmentation result.A large amount of experimental results have proved that our method outperforms many state-of-arts methods in the aspect of segmentation.