摘要:
A system and method are provided for prior-constrained mean shift analysis of a data array, the system including a processor, an input adapter in signal communication with the processor for receiving at least one data array, and a prior constraints unit in signal communication with the processor for performing a prior-constrained mean shift analysis on the at least one data array; and the method including receiving initialization data, selecting an initial point relative to the initialization data, Gaussian fitting with a prior-constrained mean shift responsive to the initial point to parse a structure, and setting the parsed structure as a prior constraint.
摘要:
By testing for nodule segmentation errors based on the scan data, juxtapleural cases are identified. Once identified, the scan data or subsequent estimation may be altered to account for adjacent rib, tissue, vessel or other structure effecting segmentation. One alteration is to shape a filter as a function of the scan data. For example, an originally estimated ellipsoid for the nodule segmentation defines the filter. The filter is used to identify the undesired information, and masking removes the undesired information for subsequent estimation of the nodule segmentation. Another possible alteration biases the subsequent estimation away from the incorrect information, such as the rib, tissue or vessel information influencing the original estimation. For example, a negative prior or probability is assigned to data corresponding to the originally estimated segmentation for the subsequent estimation.
摘要:
By testing for nodule segmentation errors based on the scan data, juxtapleural cases are identified. Once identified, the scan data or subsequent estimation may be altered to account for adjacent rib, tissue, vessel or other structure effecting segmentation. One alteration is to shape a filter as a function of the scan data. For example, an originally estimated ellipsoid for the nodule segmentation defines the filter. The filter is used to identify the undesired information, and masking removes the undesired information for subsequent estimation of the nodule segmentation. Another possible alteration biases the subsequent estimation away from the incorrect information, such as the rib, tissue or vessel information influencing the original estimation. For example, a negative prior or probability is assigned to data corresponding to the originally estimated segmentation for the subsequent estimation.
摘要:
A system and method are provided for prior-constrained mean shift analysis of a data array, the system including a processor, an input adapter in signal communication with the processor for receiving at least one data array, and a prior constraints unit in signal communication with the processor for performing a prior-constrained mean shift analysis on the at least one data array; and the method including receiving initialization data, selecting an initial point relative to the initialization data, Gaussian fitting with a prior-constrained mean shift responsive to the initial point to parse a structure, and setting the parsed structure as a prior constraint.
摘要:
A method for determining a structure in volumetric data includes determining an anisotropic scale-space for a local region around a given spatial local maximum, determining L-normalized scale-space derivatives in the anisotropic scale-space, and determining the presence of noise in the volumetric data and upon determining noise in the volumetric data, determining the structure by a most-stable-over-scales determination, and upon determining noise below a desirable level, determining the structure by one of the most-stable-over-scales determination and a maximum-over-scales determination.
摘要:
A method for segmenting a digitized image includes providing a digitized volumetric image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points in an N-dimensional space, identifying a target structure in said image, forming a window about said target structure whose size is a function of the target scale, and performing a joint space-intensity-likelihood ratio test at each point within said window to determine whether each said point is within said target structure.
摘要:
A method for determining a structure in volumetric data includes determining an anisotropic scale-space for a local region around a given spatial local maximum, determining L-normalized scale-space derivatives in the anisotropic scale-space, and determining the presence of noise in the volumetric data and upon determining noise in the volumetric data, determining the structure by a most-stable-over-scales determination, and upon determining noise below a desirable level, determining the structure by one of the most-stable-over-scales determination and a maximum-over-scales determination.
摘要:
A method for three-dimensional segmentation of a target in multislice images of volumetric data includes determining a center and a spread of the target by a parametric fitting of the volumetric data, and determining a three-dimensional volume by non-parametric segmentation of the volumetric data iteratively refining the center and spread of the target in the volumetric data.
摘要:
A method for determining a volume of interest in data includes determining fixed-bandwidth estimations of a plurality of analysis bandwidths, wherein the estimation of the fixed-bandwidth comprises, providing an estimate of a mode location of the volume of interest in the data, and determining a covariance of the volume of interest using a local Hessian matrix. The method further includes determining the volume of interest as a most stable fixed-bandwidth estimation across each of the plurality of analysis bandwidths.
摘要:
Disclosed is robust click-point linking, defined as estimating a single point-wise correspondence between data domains given a user-specified point in one domain or as an interactive localized registration of a monomodal data pair. To link visually dissimilar local regions, Geometric Configuration Context (GCC) is introduced. GCC represents the spatial likelihood of the point corresponding to the click-point in the other domain. A set of scale-invariant saliency features are pre-computed for both data. GCC is modeled by a Gaussian mixture whose component mean and width are determined as a function of the neighboring saliency features and their correspondences. This allows correspondence of dissimilar parts using only geometrical relations without comparing the local appearances. GCC models are derived for three transformation classes: pure translation, scaling and translation, and similarity transformation. For solving the linking problem, a variable-bandwidth mean shift method is adapted for estimating the maximum likelihood solution of the GCC.