A review of thyroid gland segmentation and thyroid nodule segmentation methods for medical ultrasound images

摘要

Background and objective Thyroid image segmentation is an indispensable part in computer-aided diagnosis systems and medical image diagnoses of thyroid diseases. There have been dozens of studies on thyroid gland segmentation and thyroid nodule segmentation in ultrasound images. The aim of this work is to categorize and review the thyroid gland segmentation and thyroid nodule segmentation methods in medical ultrasound.