An automatic cortical gray matter segmentation from a three-dimensional brain images (MR or CT) is a well known problem in medical image processing. In this paper we formulate it as geometric variational problem for p...
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An automatic cortical gray matter segmentation from a three-dimensional brain images (MR or CT) is a well known problem in medical image processing. In this paper we formulate it as geometric variational problem for propagation of two coupled bounding surfaces. An efficient numerical scheme is used to implement the geodesic active surface model. Experimental results of cortex segmentation on real three-dimensional MR data are provided.
The minimization of the Total Variation is an important toot of image processing. A lot of authors have addressed the problem and developed algorithms for image denoising. In a previous paper we gave an alternative ap...
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The minimization of the Total Variation is an important toot of image processing. A lot of authors have addressed the problem and developed algorithms for image denoising. In a previous paper we gave an alternative approach of the Total Variation minimization problem based on the Coarea formula. The aim of this paper is to present a new efficient algorithm for the Coarea formula approach, based on the Fast levelsets Transform.
We present a modification of the Mumford-Shah Junctional and its cartoon limit which allows the incorporation of statistical shape knowledge in a single energy functional. We show segmentation results on artificial an...
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We present a modification of the Mumford-Shah Junctional and its cartoon limit which allows the incorporation of statistical shape knowledge in a single energy functional. We show segmentation results on artificial and real-world images with and without prior shape information. In the case of occlusion and strongly cluttered background the shape prior significantly improves segmentation. Finally we compare our results to those obtained by, a level-set implementation of geodesic active contours.
We address an ill-posed inverse problem of image estimation from sparse samples of its Fourier transform. The problem is formulated as joint estimation of the supports of unknown sparse objects in the image, and pixel...
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We address an ill-posed inverse problem of image estimation from sparse samples of its Fourier transform. The problem is formulated as joint estimation of the supports of unknown sparse objects in the image, and pixel values on these supports. The domain and the pixel values are alternately estimated using the level-set method and the conjugate gradient method, respectively. Our level-set evolution shows a unique switching behavior, which stabilizes the level-set evolution. Furthermore, the trade-off between the stability and the speed of evolution can be easily controlled by the number of the conjugate gradient steps, thus avoiding the re-initialization steps in conventional levelset approaches.
In this paper we propose to study different smoothness measures of planar contours or surfaces. We first define a smoothness measure as a functional that follows three types of invariance : invariance to changes of co...
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In this paper we propose to study different smoothness measures of planar contours or surfaces. We first define a smoothness measure as a functional that follows three types of invariance : invariance to changes of contour parameterization, invariance to contour rotations and translations and invariance to the contour sizes. We then introduce different smoothness measures that can be classified into local or global functionals but also that can be of geometric or algebraic nature. We finally discuss their implementation by observing the advantages and disadvantages of explicit and implicit Contour representations.
This paper proposes a new front propagation method to segment MR cardiac images. This framework is based on the Geodesic Active Region Model, refers to a coupled propagation of two curves (inner and outer cardiac cont...
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This paper proposes a new front propagation method to segment MR cardiac images. This framework is based on the Geodesic Active Region Model, refers to a coupled propagation of two curves (inner and outer cardiac contours) and integrates boundary and region-based segmentation modules. The boundary information is introduced to the objective function rising the gradient vector flow framework while the region information using continuous probability density functions. The defined objective function is minimized rising a gradient descent method and the obtained motion equations are implemented using a levelset approach. A recently introduced numerical approximation scheme with fast convergence rate and stable behavior is used to implement the levelset motion equations. Finally, according to the application the propagations of the levelset contours are coupled rising their relative di. stances. Encouraging experimental results are provided using real data.
In this paper, we propose a new variational restoration method. We express the energy as the sum of a data attachment term, a contour smoothing term and an enhancement term. The contour smoothing is acheived by minimi...
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In this paper, we propose a new variational restoration method. We express the energy as the sum of a data attachment term, a contour smoothing term and an enhancement term. The contour smoothing is acheived by minimizing the square of the derivative of the intensity in the contour direction. The enhancement is obtained by minimizing the square of the gradient norm in each estimated region, and acts like shock filters. The minimization of the energy is then done using the conjugate gradient algorithm. We present an algorithm which allows to compute easily the gradient of the energy in the discrete case, without calculating the Euler-Lagrange equations. Experiments have been carried out on both synthetic and real images applied to 3D angiographies.
A novel framework for solving variational problems and partial differential equations for scalar and vector-valued data defined on surfaces is introduced in this paper The key idea is to implicitly represent the surfa...
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A novel framework for solving variational problems and partial differential equations for scalar and vector-valued data defined on surfaces is introduced in this paper The key idea is to implicitly represent the surface as the levelset of a higher dimensional function, and solve the surface equations in a fixed Cartesian coordinate system using this new embedding function. The equations are then both intrinsic to the surface and defined in the embedding space. This approach thereby eliminates the need for performing complicated and not-accurate computations on triangulated surfaces, as it is commonly done in the literature. We describe the framework and present examples in computer graphics and image processing applications, including texture synthesis, flowfield visualization, as well as image and vector field intrinsic regularization for data defined on 3D surfaces.
We show how the piecewise-smooth Mumford-Shah segmentation problem [25] can be solved using the levelset method of S. Osher and J. sethian [26]. The obtained algorithm can be simultaneously used to denoise, segment, ...
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We show how the piecewise-smooth Mumford-Shah segmentation problem [25] can be solved using the levelset method of S. Osher and J. sethian [26]. The obtained algorithm can be simultaneously used to denoise, segment, detect-extract edges, and perform active contours. The proposed model is also a generalization of a previous active contour model without edges, proposed by the authors in [12], and of its extension to the case with more than two segments for piecewise-constant segmentation [11]. Based on the Four Color Theorem, we can assume that in general, at most two levelset functions are sufficient to detect and represent distinct objects of distinct intensities, with triple junctions, or T-junctions.
We propose a new multiphase levelset framework for image segmentation using the Mumford and Shah model, for piecewise constant and piecewise smooth optimal approximations. The proposed method is also a generalization...
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We propose a new multiphase levelset framework for image segmentation using the Mumford and Shah model, for piecewise constant and piecewise smooth optimal approximations. The proposed method is also a generalization of an active contour model without edges based 2-phase segmentation, developed by the authors earlier in T. Chan and L. Vese (1999. In Scale-Space'99, M. Nilsen et al. (Eds.), LNCS, vol. 1682, pp. 141-151) and T. Chan and L. Vese (2001. ieee-IP, 10(2):266-277). The multiphase levelset formulation is new and of interest on its own: by construction, it automatically avoids the problems of vacuum and overlap;it needs only log n levelset functions for n phases in the piecewise constant case;it can represent boundaries with complex topologies, including triple junctions;in the piecewise smooth case, only two levelset functions formally suffice to represent any partition, based on The Four-Color Theorem. Finally, we validate the proposed models by numerical results for signal and image denoising and segmentation, implemented using the Osher and sethian levelset method.
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