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Fast parameter-free region growing segmentation with application to surgical planning

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In this paper, we propose a self-assessed adaptive region growing segmentation algorithm. In the context of an experimental virtual-reality surgical planning software platform, our method successfully delineates main tissues relevant for reconstructive surgery, such as fat, muscle, and bone. We rely on a self-tuning approach to deal with a great variety of imaging conditions requiring limited user intervention (one seed). The detection of the optimal parameters is managed internally using a measure of the varying contrast of the growing region, and the stopping criterion is adapted to the noise level in the dataset thanks to the sampling strategy used for the assessment function. Sampling is referred to the statistics of a neighborhood around the seed(s), so that the sampling period becomes greater when images are noisier, resulting in the acquisition of a lower frequency version of the contrast function. Validation is provided for synthetic images, as well as real CT datasets. For the CT test images, validation is referred to manual delineations for 10 cases and to subjective assessment for another 35. High values of sensitivity and specificity, as well as Dice’s coefficient and Jaccard’s index on one hand, and satisfactory subjective evaluation on the other hand, prove the robustness of our contrast-based measure, even suggesting suitability for calibration of other region-based segmentation algorithms.

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  1. Dpto. Teoría de la Señal, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Av. de los Descubrimientos s/n, Sevilla, 41092, Spain

    Carlos S. Mendoza, Begoña Acha & Carmen Serrano

  2. Unidad de Cirugía Plástica y Grandes Quemados, Hospitales Universitarios Virgen del Rocío, Av. Manuel Siurot s/n, Sevilla, 41013, Spain

    Tomás Gómez-Cía

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Mendoza, C.S., Acha, B., Serrano, C. et al. Fast parameter-free region growing segmentation with application to surgical planning. Machine Vision and Applications 23, 165–177 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-010-0274-z

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