Propagating interactive segmentation of a single 3D example to similar images: An evaluation study using MR images of the prostate

Emmanouil Moschidis, Jim Graham

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    Abstract

    In this paper we address the problem of segmentation propagation from one example onto similar images in an on-line and real-time fashion. As suggested in [1], we consider segmentation as a process consisting of two stages: the localization of the anatomy of interest and its boundary delineation. For each stage we identify and evaluate different potential candidate methods. All methods are applied on a dataset of 22 three dimensional (3-D) Magnetic Resonance (MR) images of the prostate. The high variation of appearance of the prostate across individuals is a challenging feature, which affects the repeatability of frameworks that leverage prior knowledge from one image example. Our observation is that the repeatability of the framework is improved, when a two stage processing strategy is realized, based on the deformable registration of [6,7], followed by Graph-Cuts [11,12] based segmentation. © 2011 IEEE.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging|IEEE Comput. Soc. Conf. Comput. Vis. Pattern Recogn.
    PublisherIEEE
    Pages1472-1475
    Number of pages3
    ISBN (Print)9781424441280
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011
    Event2011 8th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI'11 - Chicago, IL
    Duration: 1 Jul 2011 → …

    Conference

    Conference2011 8th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI'11
    CityChicago, IL
    Period1/07/11 → …

    Keywords

    • 3-D Medical Images
    • Graph-Cuts
    • Image Registration
    • Image Segmentation
    • Performance Evaluation
    • Prostate Segmentation

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