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This paper presents a new method for detecting the edge of intravascular ultrasound images, based on geometric active contours. The medical image segmentation method is based on the combination of traditional level set method and B-spline models. The new method only needs a few control points to achieve the effect of smoothing curves with drastic changes. Compared with the traditional level set function,...