Title
Riemannian Anisotropic Diffusion for Tensor Valued Images
Abstract
Tensor valued images, for instance originating from diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI), have become more and more important over the last couple of years. Due to the nonlinear structure of such data it is nontrivial to adapt well-established image processing techniques to them. In this contribution we derive anisotropic diffusion equations for tensor-valued images based on the intrinsic Riemannian geometric structure of the space of symmetric positive tensors. In contrast to anisotropic diffusion approaches proposed so far, which are based on the Euclidian metric, our approach considers the nonlinear structure of positive definite tensors by means of the intrinsic Riemannian metric. Together with an intrinsic numerical scheme our approach overcomes a main drawback of former proposed anisotropic diffusion approaches, the so-called eigenvalue swelling effect. Experiments on synthetic data as well as real DT-MRI data demonstrate the value of a sound differential geometric formulation of diffusion processes for tensor valued data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-88693-8_24
ECCV (4)
Keywords
Field
DocType
anisotropic diffusion equation,intrinsic numerical scheme,intrinsic riemannian geometric structure,riemannian anisotropic diffusion,former proposed anisotropic diffusion,diffusion tensor magnetic resonance,real dt-mri data,diffusion process,nonlinear structure,synthetic data,diffusion approach,magnetic resonance image,eigenvalues,positive definite,anisotropic diffusion,diffusion tensor
Anisotropic diffusion,Ricci flow,Tensor,Mathematical analysis,Symmetric tensor,Structure tensor,Tensor contraction,Fundamental theorem of Riemannian geometry,Mathematics,Diffusion equation
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5305
0302-9743
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
20
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kai Krajsek1577.30
Marion I. Menzel2176.13
Michael Zwanger350.44
Hanno Scharr443037.92