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An Oriented Flux Symmetry Based Active Contour Model for Three Dimensional Vessel Segmentation

Authors : Max W. K. Law, Albert C. S. Chung

Published in: Computer Vision – ECCV 2010

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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This paper proposes a novel approach to segment three dimensional curvilinear structures, particularly vessels in angiography, by inspecting the symmetry of image gradients. The proposed method stresses the importance of simultaneously considering both the gradient symmetry with respect to the curvilinear structure center, and the gradient antisymmetry with respect to the object boundary. Measuring the image gradient symmetry remarkably suppresses the disturbance introduced by rapid intensity changes along curvilinear structures. Meanwhile, considering the image gradient antisymmetry helps locate the structure boundary. The gradient symmetry and the gradient antisymmetry are evaluated based on the notion of oriented flux. By utilizing the aforementioned gradient symmetry information, an active contour model is tailored to perform segmentation. On the one hand, by exploiting the symmetric image gradient pattern observed at structure centers, the contours expand along curvilinear structures even through there exists intensity fluctuation along the structures. On the other hand, measuring the antisymmetry of the image gradient conveys strong detection responses to precisely drive contours to the structure boundaries, as well as avoiding contour leakages. The proposed method is capable of delivering promising segmentation results. This is validated in the experiments using synthetic data and real vascular images of different modalities, and through the comparison to two well founded and published methods for curvilinear structure segmentation.

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Metadata
Title
An Oriented Flux Symmetry Based Active Contour Model for Three Dimensional Vessel Segmentation
Authors
Max W. K. Law
Albert C. S. Chung
Copyright Year
2010
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15558-1_52

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