Title
Automatic categorization of anatomical landmark-local appearances based on diffeomorphic demons and spectral clustering for constructing detector ensembles.
Abstract
A method for categorizing landmark-local appearances extracted from computed tomography (CT) datasets is presented. Anatomical landmarks in the human body inevitably have inter-individual variations that cause difficulty in automatic landmark detection processes. The goal of this study is to categorize subjects (i.e., training datasets) according to local shape variations of such a landmark so that each subgroup has less shape variation and thus the machine learning of each landmark detector is much easier. The similarity between each subject pair is measured based on the non-rigid registration result between them. These similarities are used by the spectral clustering process. After the clustering, all training datasets in each cluster, as well as synthesized intermediate images calculated from all subject-pairs in the cluster, are used to train the corresponding subgroup detector. All of these trained detectors compose a detector ensemble to detect the target landmark. Evaluation with clinical CT datasets showed great improvement in the detection performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-33418-4_14
MICCAI (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
detection performance,automatic categorization,detector ensemble,clinical ct datasets,training datasets,automatic landmark detection process,trained detector,diffeomorphic demon,corresponding subgroup detector,landmark detector,anatomical landmark-local appearance,spectral clustering,target landmark,anatomical landmark
Computer vision,Categorization,Spectral clustering,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Computed tomography,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Landmark,Detector,Diffeomorphism
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
Pt 2
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shouhei Hanaoka1267.56
Yoshitaka Masutani214530.52
Mitsutaka Nemoto3468.42
Nomura, Y.4319.51
Takeharu Yoshikawa5267.93
Naoto Hayashi6206.38
Kuni Ohtomo74511.32