Title
Orientation estimation of anatomical structures in medical images for object recognition
Abstract
Recognition of anatomical structures is an important step in model based medical image segmentation. It provides pose estimation of objects and information about "where" roughly the objects are in the image and distinguishing them from other object-like entities. In,(1) we presented a general method of model-based multiobject recognition to assist in segmentation (delineation) tasks. It exploits the pose relationship that can be encoded, via the concept of ball scale (b-scale), between the binary training objects and their associated grey images. The goal was to place the model, in a single shot, close to the right pose (position, orientation, and scale) in a given image so that the model boundaries fall in the close vicinity of object boundaries in the image. Unlike position and scale parameters, we observe that orientation parameters require more attention when estimating the pose of the model as even small differences in orientation parameters can lead to inappropriate recognition. Motivated from the non-Euclidean nature of the pose information, we propose in this paper the use of non-Euclidean metrics to estimate orientation of the anatomical structures for more accurate recognition and segmentation. We statistically analyze and evaluate the following metrics for orientation estimation: Euclidean, Log-Euclidean, Root-Euclidean, Procrustes Size-and-Shape, and mean Hermitian metrics. The results show that mean Hermitian and Cholesky decomposition metrics provide more accurate orientation estimates than other Euclidean and non-Euclidean metrics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1117/12.878184
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Anatomy Segmentation,Object Recognition,Hermitian Matrices,Non-Euclidean metrics,Multiple Object Recognition
Computer vision,3D single-object recognition,Scale-space segmentation,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,3D pose estimation,Pose,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition,Cholesky decomposition,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7962
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ulas Bagci133933.41
Jayaram K. Udupa22481322.29
XinJian Chen350253.39