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- Title
An Improved Random Walker with Bayes Model for Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation.
- Authors
Dong, Chunhua; Zeng, Xiangyan; Lin, Lanfen; Hu, Hongjie; Han, Xianhua; Naghedolfeizi, Masoud; Aberra, Dawit; Chen, Yen-Wei
- Abstract
Random walk (RW) method has been widely used to segment the organ in the volumetric medical image. However, it leads to a very large-scale graph due to a number of nodes equal to a voxel number and inaccurate segmentation because of the unavailability of appropriate initial seed point setting. In addition, the classical RW algorithm was designed for a user to mark a few pixels with an arbitrary number of labels, regardless of the intensity and shape information of the organ. Hence, we propose a prior knowledge-based Bayes random walk framework to segment the volumetric medical image in a slice-by-slice manner. Our strategy is to employ the previous segmented slice to obtain the shape and intensity knowledge of the target organ for the adjacent slice. According to the prior knowledge, the object/background seed points can be dynamically updated for the adjacent slice by combining the narrow band threshold (NBT) method and the organ model with a Gaussian process. Finally, a high-quality image segmentation result can be automatically achieved using Bayes RW algorithm. Comparing our method with conventional RW and state-of-the-art interactive segmentation methods, our results show an improvement in the accuracy for liver segmentation (p<0.001).
- Subjects
IMAGE segmentation; DIAGNOSTIC imaging; BAYES' theorem; THEORY of knowledge; RANDOM walks
- Publication
Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2017, p1
- ISSN
2040-2295
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2017/6506049