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ACM-Based Automatic Liver Segmentation From 3-D CT Images by Combining Multiple Atlases and Improved Mean-Shift Techniques
Abstract—In this paper, we present an autocontext model (ACM)-basedautomaticliversegmentationalgorithm,whichcombines ACM, multiatlases, and mean-shift techniques to segment liver from 3-D CT images. Our algorithm is a learning-based method and can be divided into two stages. At the first stage, i.e., the training stage, ACM is performed to learn a sequence of classifiers in each atlas space (based on each atlas and other aligned atlases). With the use of multiple atlases, multiple sequences of ACM-based classifiers are obtained. At the second stage, i.e., the segmentation stage, the test image will be segmented in each atlas space by applying each sequence of ACM-based classifiers. The final segmentation result will be obtained by fusing segmentation results from all atlas spaces via a multiclassifier fusion technique. Specially, in order to speed up segmentation, given a test image, we first use an improved mean-shift algorithm to perform oversegmentationandthenimplementtheregion-basedimagelabeling instead of the original inefficient pixel-based image labeling. The proposed method is evaluated on the datasets of MICCAI 2007 liver segmentation challenge. The experimental results show that theaveragevolumeoverlaperrorandtheaveragesurfacedistance achievedbyourmethodare8.3%and1.5m,respectively,whichare comparable to the results reported in the existing state-of-the-art work on liver segmentation.
Index Terms—Autocontext model (ACM), fuzzy integral, liver segmentation, mean shift, multiclassifier fusion, multiple atlases.
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