Modified fast marching method and its application in the segmentation of medical images

Fuping Zhu; Jie Tian

doi:10.1117/12.477160

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31 July 2002 Modified fast marching method and its application in the segmentation of medical images

Fuping Zhu, Jie Tian

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Proceedings Volume 4875, Second International Conference on Image and Graphics; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477160
Event: Second International Conference on Image and Graphics, 2002, Hefei, China

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One of the most popular level set algorithms is the so-called fast marching method. In this paper, a medical image segmentation method is proposed based on the combination of fast marching method and watershed transformation. First, the original image is smoothed using nonlinear diffusion filter, then the smoothed image is over-segmented by the watershed algorithm. Last, the image is segmented automatically using the modified fast marching method. Due to introducing over-segmentation, the arrival time the seeded point to the boundary of region should be calculated. For other pixels inside the region of the seeded point, the arrival time is not calculated because of the region homogeneity. So the algorithm's speed improves greatly. Moreover, the speed function is defmed again based on the statistical similarity degree of the nearby regions. Experiments show that the algorithm can fast and accurately obtain segmentation results ofmedical images.

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Fuping Zhu and Jie Tian "Modified fast marching method and its application in the segmentation of medical images", Proc. SPIE 4875, Second International Conference on Image and Graphics, (31 July 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477160

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