Title
Nonlinear band expansion and nonnegative matrix underapproximation for unsupervised segmentation of a liver from a multi-phase CT image
Abstract
A methodology is proposed for contrast enhanced unsupervised segmentation of a liver from a two-dimensional multi-phase CT image. The multi-phase CT image is represented by a linear mixture model, whereupon each single-phase CT image is modeled as a linear mixture of spatial distributions of the organs present in the image. The methodology exploits concentration and spatial diversities between organs present in the image and consists of nonlinear dimensionality expansion followed by matrix factorization that relies on sparseness between spatial distributions of organs. Dimensionality expansion increases concentration diversity (contrast) between organs. The methodology is demonstrated on an experimental three-phase CT image of a liver of two patients.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1117/12.876965
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multi-phase CT image,liver delineation,unsupervised segmentation,nonnegative matrix factorization
Computer vision,Nonlinear system,Pattern recognition,Nonnegative matrix,Matrix (mathematics),Segmentation,Matrix decomposition,Curse of dimensionality,Non-negative matrix factorization,Artificial intelligence,Mixture model,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7962
0277-786X
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ivica Kopriva114616.60
XinJian Chen250253.39
Jianhua Yao31135110.49