IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Pictorial Structures for Object Recognition
International Journal of Computer Vision
Representation and Detection of Deformable Shapes
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Computing Accurate Correspondences across Groups of Images
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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In recent years, statistical shape models, of which Active Appearance Models (AAMs) are a subset have been increasingly applied to the automatic segmentation of medical images. AAMs are a local search technique requiring good initialisation. In 3D automatic initialisation can be achieved by multiple initialisations, registration, template matching or by application dependent heuristics. The first three can be sub-optimal in certain situations, whilst the last is not generic. We describe a generic, fast and automated method of initialising 3D AAMs using sparse local models of texture (the parts) together with a graph capturing their pairwise geometric relationships. Initialisation then becomes a matter of searching for the parts using the parts-and-geometry model, from which the necessary pose and shape parameters are obtained. We demonstrate the method by applying it to the segmentation of 10 subcortical structures from 3D MRI sequences of the head.