Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Exploiting User Labels with Generalized Distance Transforms Random Field Level Sets

MERL Report:  TR2010-019
Where Published: International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

We present an approach for exploiting user labels with random field level sets in image segmentation. A sparse set of user labels is propagated to the rest of the image by computing a generalized distance transform which takes into account image intensity information. The region-based level set formulation is modified to use random field level sets whose range is restricted to the probability values. These two ideas are combined in a single level set functional. Improved results are shown on a liver segmentation task.

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