Ball-scale based hierarchical multi-object recognition in 3D medical images

Ulas Bağci; Jayaram K. Udupa; Xinjian Chen

doi:10.1117/12.839920

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12 March 2010 Ball-scale based hierarchical multi-object recognition in 3D medical images

Ulas Bağci, Jayaram K. Udupa, Xinjian Chen

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Proceedings Volume 7623, Medical Imaging 2010: Image Processing; 762345 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.839920
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

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This paper investigates, using prior shape models and the concept of ball scale (b-scale), ways of automatically recognizing objects in 3D images without performing elaborate searches or optimization. That is, the goal is to place the model in a single shot close to the right pose (position, orientation, and scale) in a given image so that the model boundaries fall in the close vicinity of object boundaries in the image. This is achieved via the following set of key ideas: (a) A semi-automatic way of constructing a multi-object shape model assembly. (b) A novel strategy of encoding, via b-scale, the pose relationship between objects in the training images and their intensity patterns captured in b-scale images. (c) A hierarchical mechanism of positioning the model, in a one-shot way, in a given image from a knowledge of the learnt pose relationship and the b-scale image of the given image to be segmented. The evaluation results on a set of 20 routine clinical abdominal female and male CT data sets indicate the following: (1) Incorporating a large number of objects improves the recognition accuracy dramatically. (2) The recognition algorithm can be thought as a hierarchical framework such that quick replacement of the model assembly is defined as coarse recognition and delineation itself is known as finest recognition. (3) Scale yields useful information about the relationship between the model assembly and any given image such that the recognition results in a placement of the model close to the actual pose without doing any elaborate searches or optimization. (4) Effective object recognition can make delineation most accurate.

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Ulas Bağci, Jayaram K. Udupa, and Xinjian Chen "Ball-scale based hierarchical multi-object recognition in 3D medical images", Proc. SPIE 7623, Medical Imaging 2010: Image Processing, 762345 (12 March 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.839920

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