Conference proceeding
Tensor scale-based fuzzy connectedness image segmentation
Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.5032(1), pp.1580-1590
Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing
05/16/2003
DOI: 10.1117/12.481882
Abstract
Tangible solutions to image segmentation are vital in many medical imaging applications. Toward this goal, a framework based on fuzzy connectedness was developed in our laboratory. A fundamental notion called "affinity" - a local fuzzy hanging togetherness relation on voxels - determines the effectiveness of this segmentation framework in real applications. In this paper, we introduce the notion of "tensor scale" - a recently developed local morphometric parameter - in affinity definition and study its effectiveness. Although, our previous notion of "local scale" using the spherical model successfully incorporated local structure size into affinity and resulted in measureable improvements in segmentation results, a major limitation of the previous approach was that it ignored local structural orientation and anisotropy. The current approach of using tensor scale in affinity computation allows an effective utilization of local size, orientation, and ansiotropy in a unified manner. Tensor scale is used for computing both the homogeneity- and object-feature-based components of affinity. Preliminary results of the proposed method on several medical images and computer generated phantoms of realistic shapes are presented. Further extensions of this work are discussed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Tensor scale-based fuzzy connectedness image segmentation
- Creators
- Punam K Saha - Univ. of Pennsylvania (USA)Jayaram K Udupa - Univ. of Pennsylvania (USA)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.5032(1), pp.1580-1590
- Conference
- Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing
- DOI
- 10.1117/12.481882
- ISSN
- 0277-786X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/16/2003
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering; Radiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984051898202771
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