Translation, Scale, and Deformation Weighted Polar Active Contours

Baust M., Yezzi A., Unal G., NAVAB N.

JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL IMAGING AND VISION, cilt.44, sa.3, ss.354-365, 2012 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 44 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2012
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s10851-012-0331-5
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL IMAGING AND VISION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.354-365
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Polar active contours have proven to be a powerful segmentation method for many medical as well as other computer vision applications, such as interactive image segmentation or tracking. Inspired by recent work on Sobolev active contours we derive a Sobolev-type function space for polar curves, which is endowed with a metric that allows us to favor origin translations and scale changes over smooth deformations of the curve. The resulting translation, scale, and deformation weighted polar active contours inherit the coarse-to-fine behavior of Sobolev active contours as well as their robustness to local minima and are thus very useful for many medical applications, such as cross-sectional vessel segmentation, aneurysm analysis, or cell tracking.