Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING
Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages 488-501Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2037201
Keywords
Belief-propagation; cervigrams; lesion detection; lesion segmentation; Markov random field (MRF); uterine cervix; visual words; watershed map
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This paper presents a procedure for automatic extraction and segmentation of a class-specific object (or region) by learning class-specific boundaries. We describe and evaluate the method with a specific focus on the detection of lesion regions in uterine cervix images. The watershed segmentation map of the input image is modeled using a Markov random field (MRF) in which watershed regions correspond to binary random variables indicating whether the region is part of the lesion tissue or not. The local pairwise factors on the arcs of the watershed map indicate whether the arc is part of the object boundary. The factors are based on supervised learning of a visual word distribution. The final lesion region segmentation is obtained using a loopy belief propagation applied to the watershed arc-level MRF. Experimental results on real data show state-of-the-art segmentation results on this very challenging task that, if necessary, can be interactively enhanced.
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