scholarly journals Fast Segmentation of Vertebrae CT Image Based on the SNIC Algorithm

Tomography ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Bing Li ◽  
Shaoyong Wu ◽  
Siqin Zhang ◽  
Xia Liu ◽  
Guangqing Li

Automatic image segmentation plays an important role in the fields of medical image processing so that these fields constantly put forward higher requirements for the accuracy and speed of segmentation. In order to improve the speed and performance of the segmentation algorithm of medical images, we propose a medical image segmentation algorithm based on simple non-iterative clustering (SNIC). Firstly, obtain the feature map of the image by extracting the texture information of it with feature extraction algorithm; Secondly, reduce the image to a quarter of the original image size by downscaling; Then, the SNIC super-pixel algorithm with texture information and adaptive parameters which used to segment the downscaling image to obtain the superpixel mark map; Finally, restore the superpixel labeled image to the original size through the idea of the nearest neighbor algorithm. Experimental results show that the algorithm uses an improved superpixel segmentation method on downscaling images, which can increase the segmentation speed when segmenting medical images, while ensuring excellent segmentation accuracy.

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (6Part4) ◽  
pp. 2663-2663
Author(s):  
O Kum ◽  
H Lee ◽  
J Kim ◽  
T Song ◽  
K Park ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Teng ◽  
Hang Li ◽  
Shahid Karim

Medical image segmentation is one of the hot issues in the related area of image processing. Precise segmentation for medical images is a vital guarantee for follow-up treatment. At present, however, low gray contrast and blurred tissue boundaries are common in medical images, and the segmentation accuracy of medical images cannot be effectively improved. Especially, deep learning methods need more training samples, which lead to time-consuming process. Therefore, we propose a novelty model for medical image segmentation based on deep multiscale convolutional neural network (CNN) in this article. First, we extract the region of interest from the raw medical images. Then, data augmentation is operated to acquire more training datasets. Our proposed method contains three models: encoder, U-net, and decoder. Encoder is mainly responsible for feature extraction of 2D image slice. The U-net cascades the features of each block of the encoder with those obtained by deconvolution in the decoder under different scales. The decoding is mainly responsible for the upsampling of the feature graph after feature extraction of each group. Simulation results show that the new method can boost the segmentation accuracy. And, it has strong robustness compared with other segmentation methods.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ningning Zhou ◽  
Tingting Yang ◽  
Shaobai Zhang

Image segmentation plays an important role in medical image processing. Fuzzy c-means (FCM) is one of the popular clustering algorithms for medical image segmentation. But FCM is highly vulnerable to noise due to not considering the spatial information in image segmentation. This paper introduces medium mathematics system which is employed to process fuzzy information for image segmentation. It establishes the medium similarity measure based on the measure of medium truth degree (MMTD) and uses the correlation of the pixel and its neighbors to define the medium membership function. An improved FCM medical image segmentation algorithm based on MMTD which takes some spatial features into account is proposed in this paper. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is more antinoise than the standard FCM, with more certainty and less fuzziness. This will lead to its practicable and effective applications in medical image segmentation.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng-Ping An ◽  
Zhi-Wen Liu

With the development of computer vision and image segmentation technology, medical image segmentation and recognition technology has become an important part of computer-aided diagnosis. The traditional image segmentation method relies on artificial means to extract and select information such as edges, colors, and textures in the image. It not only consumes considerable energy resources and people’s time but also requires certain expertise to obtain useful feature information, which no longer meets the practical application requirements of medical image segmentation and recognition. As an efficient image segmentation method, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely promoted and applied in the field of medical image segmentation. However, CNNs that rely on simple feedforward methods have not met the actual needs of the rapid development of the medical field. Thus, this paper is inspired by the feedback mechanism of the human visual cortex, and an effective feedback mechanism calculation model and operation framework is proposed, and the feedback optimization problem is presented. A new feedback convolutional neural network algorithm based on neuron screening and neuron visual information recovery is constructed. So, a medical image segmentation algorithm based on a feedback mechanism convolutional neural network is proposed. The basic idea is as follows: The model for obtaining an initial region with the segmented medical image classifies the pixel block samples in the segmented image. Then, the initial results are optimized by threshold segmentation and morphological methods to obtain accurate medical image segmentation results. Experiments show that the proposed segmentation method has not only high segmentation accuracy but also extremely high adaptive segmentation ability for various medical images. The research in this paper provides a new perspective for medical image segmentation research. It is a new attempt to explore more advanced intelligent medical image segmentation methods. It also provides technical approaches and methods for further development and improvement of adaptive medical image segmentation technology.


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