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Image segmentation has many important applications, particularly in medical imaging. Often medical images such as CTs have little contrast in them, and segmentation in such cases poses a great challenge to existing models without further user interaction. In this paper we propose an edge enhancement method based on the theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) to model smooth components of an image, while separating the edges using approximated Heaviside functions. By modelling using this decomposition method, the approximated Heaviside function is capable of picking up more details than the usual method of using the image gradient. Further using this as an edge detector in a segmentation model can allow us to pick up a region of interest when low contrast between two objects is present and other models fail.
Work supported by UK EPSRC grant EP/N014499/1.
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Burrows, L., Guo, W., Chen, K., Torella, F. (2020). Edge Enhancement for Image Segmentation Using a RKHS Method. In: Zheng, Y., Williams, B., Chen, K. (eds) Medical Image Understanding and Analysis. MIUA 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1065. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39343-4_17
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