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A shape-based approach to the segmentation of medical imagery using level sets
A shape-based approach to the segmentation of medical imagery using level sets
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Tsai, Andy
Yezzi, Anthony
Wells, William, III
Tempany, Clare
Tucker, Dewey
Fan, Ayres
Grimson, W. Eric
Willsky, Alan S.
Yezzi, Anthony
Wells, William, III
Tempany, Clare
Tucker, Dewey
Fan, Ayres
Grimson, W. Eric
Willsky, Alan S.
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We propose a shape-based approach to curve evolution for the segmentation of medical images containing known object types. In particular, motivated by the work of Leventon, Grimson, and Faugeras (2000), we derive a parametric model for an implicit representation of the segmenting curve by applying principal component analysis to a collection of signed distance representations of the training data. The parameters of this representation are then manipulated to minimize an objective function for segmentation. The resulting algorithm is able to handle multidimensional data, can deal with topological changes of the curve, is robust to noise and initial contour placements, and is computationally efficient. At the same time, it avoids the need for point correspondences during the training phase of the algorithm. We demonstrate this technique by applying it to two medical applications; two-dimensional segmentation of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and three-dimensional segmentation of prostate MRI.
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2003-02
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