Artificial life for segmentation of fusion ultrasound images of breast abnormalities

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Highlights：

• A new method of segmentation medical images which combines AI, fusion and artificial life.

• A new variant of fusion of the US and the elastography images.

• Artificial agents with the ability to find strong edges and close the boundary gaps.

• Testing against 85 preceding segmentation methods.

• Video demo at http://shorturl.at/htBW9.

摘要

•A new method of segmentation medical images which combines AI, fusion and artificial life.•A new variant of fusion of the US and the elastography images.•Artificial agents with the ability to find strong edges and close the boundary gaps.•Testing against 85 preceding segmentation methods.•Video demo at http://shorturl.at/htBW9.

论文关键词：Artificial life,Fusion image,Medical image segmentation,Genetic algorithm,Ultrasound images,Breast cancer

论文评审过程：Received 25 September 2021, Revised 16 May 2022, Accepted 7 June 2022, Available online 9 June 2022, Version of Record 19 June 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2022.108838