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Template-Cut: A Pattern-Based Segmentation Paradigm
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Institution: |
1Surgical Planning Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 2Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany. 3Department of Neurosurgery, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany. |
Publisher: |
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) |
Publication Date: |
May-2012 |
Journal: |
Nature - Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group (NPG) |
Volume Number: |
420 |
Issue Number: |
2 |
Pages: |
1-8 |
Citation: |
Sci Rep. 2012;2:420:1-8. |
Links: |
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120524/srep00420/full/srep00420.html
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PubMed ID: |
22639728 |
PMCID: |
PMC3359527 |
Appears in Collections: |
NCIGT, NA-MIC, SPL |
Sponsors: |
P41 RR019703 P41 EB015898 U54 EB005149 R03 EB013792 |
Generated Citation: |
Egger J., Freisleben B., Nimsky C., Kapur T. Template-Cut: A Pattern-Based Segmentation Paradigm. Sci Rep. 2012;2:420:1-8. PMID: 22639728. PMCID: PMC3359527. |
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We present a scale-invariant, template-based segmentation paradigm that sets up a graph and performs a graph cut to separate an object from the background. Typically graph-based schemes distribute the nodes of the graph uniformly and equidistantly on the image, and use a regularizer to bias the cut towards a particular shape. The strategy of uniform and equidistant nodes does not allow the cut to prefer more complex structures, especially when areas of the object are indistinguishable from the background. We propose a solution by introducing the concept of a "template shape" of the target object in which the nodes are sampled non-uniformly and non-equidistantly on the image. We evaluate it on 2D-images where the object's textures and backgrounds are similar, and large areas of the object have the same gray level appearance as the background. We also evaluate it in 3D on 60 brain tumor datasets for neurosurgical planning purposes.
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