Abstract
The foolproof segmentation of 3D anatomical structures in medical images is usually a challenging task, which makes automatic results often far from desirable and interactive repairs necessary. In the past, we introduced a first solution to resume segmentation from third-party software into an initial optimum-path forest for interactive correction by differential image foresting transforms (DIFTs). Here, we present a new method that estimates the initial forest (input segmentation) rooted at more regularly separated seed voxels to facilitate interactive editing. The forest is a supervoxel segmentation from seeds that result from a sequence of image foresting transforms to conform as much as possible the supervoxel boundaries to the boundaries of the object in the input segmentation. We demonstrate the advantages of the new method over the previous one by using a robot user, as an impartial way to correct brain segmentation in MR-T1 images.
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Thanks to CNPq (308985/2015-0, 486083/2013-6, FINEP 1266/13), FAPESP (2011/50761-2, 2014/12236-1, 2015/09446-7, 2016/11853-2), CAPES, and NAP eScience - PRP - USP for funding, and Dr. J. K. Udupa (MIPG-UPENN) for the images.
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Tavares, A.C.M., Miranda, P.A.V., Spina, T.V., Falcão, A.X. (2017). A Supervoxel-Based Solution to Resume Segmentation for Interactive Correction by Differential Image-Foresting Transforms. In: Angulo, J., Velasco-Forero, S., Meyer, F. (eds) Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Signal and Image Processing. ISMM 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10225. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57240-6_9
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