Medical Image Segmentation Using Deformable Models and Local Fitting Binary

This paper presents a customized deformable model for the segmentation of abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms in CTA datasets. An important challenge in reliably detecting aortic aneurysm is the need to overcome problems associated with intensity inhomogeneities and image noise. Level sets are part of an important class of methods that utilize partial differential equations (PDEs) and have been extensively applied in image segmentation. A Gaussian kernel function in the level set formulation, which extracts the local intensity information, aids the suppression of noise in the extracted regions of interest and then guides the motion of the evolving contour for the detection of weak boundaries. The speed of curve evolution has been significantly improved with a resulting decrease in segmentation time compared with previous implementations of level sets. The results indicate the method is more effective than other approaches in coping with intensity inhomogeneities.

Authors:

• B. Bagheri Nakhjavanlo
• T. J. Ellis
• P. Raoofi
• J. Dehmeshki

Keywords:

• Abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms
• intensityinhomogeneity
• level sets
• local fitting binary.

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