2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Robust Medical Images Segmentation Using Learned Shape and Appearance Models
Authors : Ayman El-Baz, Georgy Gimel’farb
Published in: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2009
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We propose a novel parametric deformable model controlled by shape and visual appearance priors learned from a training subset of co-aligned medical images of goal objects. The shape prior is derived from a linear combination of vectors of distances between the training boundaries and their common centroid. The appearance prior considers gray levels within each training boundary as a sample of a Markov-Gibbs random field with pairwise interaction. Spatially homogeneous interaction geometry and Gibbs potentials are analytically estimated from the training data. To accurately separate a goal object from an arbitrary background, empirical marginal gray level distributions inside and outside of the boundary are modeled with adaptive linear combinations of discrete Gaussians (LCDG). Due to the analytical shape and appearance priors and a simple Expectation-Maximization procedure for getting the object and background LCDG, our segmentation is considerably faster than with most of the known geometric and parametric models. Experiments with various goal images confirm the robustness, accuracy, and speed of our approach.