Learning a Structured Graphical Model with Boosted Top-Down Features for Ultrasound Image Segmentation

Autor: Qiang Wang, Baek Hwan Cho, Youngkyoo Hwang, Xiaotao Wang, Zhihui Hao, Won Ki Lee, Jung-Bae Kim, Ping Guo
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Advanced Information Systems Engineering ISBN: 9783642387081
MICCAI (1)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40811-3_29
Popis: A key problem for many medical image segmentation tasks is the combination of different-level knowledge. We propose a novel scheme of embedding detected regions into a superpixel based graphical model, by which we achieve a full leverage on various image cues for ultrasound lesion segmentation. Region features are mapped into a higher-dimensional space via a boosted model to become well controlled. Parameters for regions, superpixels and a new affinity term are learned simultaneously within the framework of structured learning. Experiments on a breast ultrasound image data set confirm the effectiveness of the proposed approach as well as our two novel modules.
Databáze: OpenAIRE