Cardiac image segmentation using spatio-temporal clustering (CROSBI ID 481598)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Galić, Saša ; Lončarić, Sven
engleski
Cardiac image segmentation using spatio-temporal clustering
Image segmentation is an important and challenging problem in image analysis. Segmentation of moving objects in image sequences is even more difficult and computationally expensive. In this work we propose a technique for spatio -temporal segmentation of medical sequences based on K-mean clustering in the feature vector space. The motivation for spatio-temporalsegmentation approach comes from the fact that motion is a useful clue for object segme ntation. Two- dimensional feature vector has been used for clustering in the feature space. In this paper we apply the proposed technique to segmentation of cardiac images. The first feature used in this particular application is image brightness, which reveals the structure of interest in the image. The second feature is the Euclidean norm of the optical flow vector. The third feature is the three-dimensional optical flow vector, which consists of computed motion in all three dimensions. The optical flow itself is computed using Horn-Schunck algorithm. The fourth feature is the mean brightness of the input image in a local neighborhood. By applying the clustering algorithm it is possible to detect moving object in the image sequence. The experiment has been conducted using a sequence of ECG-gated magnetic resonance (MR) images of a beating heart taken as in time so in the space.
spatio-temporal image segmentation; clustering; optical flow; image analysis; motion estimation
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Podaci o prilogu
1199-1206-x.
2001.
objavljeno
Podaci o matičnoj publikaciji
Medical Imaging 2001; Image processing
Sonka, Milan; Hanson, Kenneth M.
San Diego (CA): The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Podaci o skupu
Medical Imaging 2001
poster
19.02.2001-22.02.2001
San Diego (CA), Sjedinjene Američke Države