Title
Arrangement: a spatial relation between parts for evaluating similarity of tomographic section
Abstract
Medical tomographic images are formed by the intersection of the image plane and an object. As the image plane changes, different parts of the object come in view or drop out of view. However, for small changes of the image plane, most parts continue to remain visible and their qualitative embedding in the image remains similar. Therefore, similarity of part embeddings can be used to infer similarity of image planes. Part embeddings are useful features for other vision applications as well. In view of this, a spatial relation called “arrangement” is proposed to describe part embeddings. The relation describes how each part is surrounded by its neighbors. Further, a metric for arrangements is formulated by expressing arrangements in terms of the Voronoi diagram of the parts. Arrangements and their metric are used to retrieve images by image plane similarity in a cardiac magnetic resonance image database. Experiments with the database are reported which (1) validate the observation that similarity of image planes can be inferred from similarity of part embeddings, and (2) compare the performance of arrangement based image retrieval with that of expert radiologists
Year
DOI
Venue
1995
10.1109/34.406653
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
Field
DocType
biomedical NMR,cardiology,computational geometry,computerised tomography,image sequences,medical image processing,tomography,Voronoi diagram,arrangement,cardiac magnetic resonance image database,image plane similarity,image retrieval,medical tomographic images,spatial relation,tomographic section similarity
Spatial relation,Computer vision,Embedding,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Computational geometry,Image plane,Image retrieval,Tomography,Voronoi diagram,Artificial intelligence,Drop out
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
9
0162-8828
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
11.11
3
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hemant D. Tagare111320.58
Vos, F.M.21911.11
Conrade C. Jaffe31911.11
James S. Duncan43012.80
Frans Vos52117.73