Point-Based geometric deformable models for medical image segmentation

Authors:
Hon Pong Ho;Yunmei Chen;Huafeng Liu;Pengcheng Shi
Affiliations:
Dept. of EEE, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong;Dept. of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville;Dept. of EEE, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong;Dept. of EEE, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Venue:
MICCAI'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - Volume Part I
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Conventional level set based image segmentations are performed upon certain underlying grid/mesh structures for explicit spatial discretization of the problem and evolution domains. Such computational grids, however, lead to typically expensive and difficult grid refinement/remeshing problems whenever tradeoffs between time and precision are deemed necessary. In this paper, we present the idea of performing level set evolution in a point-based environment where the sampling location and density of the domains are adaptively determined by level set geometry and image information, thus rid of the needs for computational grids and the associated refinements. We have implemented the general geometric deformable models using this representation and computational strategy, including the incorporation of region-based prior information in both domain sampling and curve evolution processes, and have evaluated the performance of the method on synthetic data with ground truth and performed surface segmentation of brain structures from three-dimensional magnetic resonance images.