Paper Info
Title
Pull-Push Level Sets: A new term to encode prior knowledge for the segmentation of teeth images
Abstract
This paper presents a novel level set method for contour detection in multiple-object scenarios applied to the segmentation of teeth images. Teeth segmentation from 2D images of dental plaster cast models is a difficult problem because it is necessary to independently segment several objects that have very badly defined borders between them. Current methods for contour detection which only employ image information cannot successfully segment such structures. Being therefore necessary to use prior knowledge about the problem domain, current approaches in the literature are limited to the extraction of shape information of individual objects., whereas the key factor in such a problem are the relative positions of the different objects composing the anatomical structure. Therefore, we propose a novel method for introducing such information into a level set framework. This results in a new energy term which can be explained as a regional term that takes into account the relative positions of the different objects, and consequently creates an attraction or repulsion force that favors a determined configuration. The proposed method is compared with balloon and GVF snakes, as well as with the Geodesic Active Regions model, showing accurate results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1117/12.594060
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS (SPIE)
Keywords
Field
DocType
level sets,segmentation,prior information,teeth
Computer vision,ENCODE,Problem domain,Level set method,Segmentation,Level set,Dental plaster,Artificial intelligence,Geography,Geodesic
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5747
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rodrigo de Luis-García115014.15
Raúl San José Estépar223829.27
carlos alberolalopez3302.30