Title
A Kalman Filtering Perspective for Multiatlas Segmentation.
Abstract
In multiatlas segmentation, one typically registers several atlases to the novel image, and their respective segmented label images are transformed and fused to form the final segmentation. In this work, we provide a new dynamical system perspective for multiatlas segmentation, inspired by the following fact: The transformation that aligns the current atlas to the novel image can be not only computed by direct registration but also inferred from the transformation that aligns the previous atlas to the image together with the transformation between the two atlases. This process is similar to the global positioning system on a vehicle, which gets position by inquiring from the satellite and by employing the previous location and velocity-neither answer in isolation being perfect. To solve this problem, a dynamical system scheme is crucial to combine the two pieces of information; for example, a Kalman filtering scheme is used. Accordingly, in this work, a Kalman multiatlas segmentation is proposed to stabilize the global/affine registration step. The contributions of this work are twofold. First, it provides a new dynamical systematic perspective for standard independent multiatlas registrations, and it is solved by Kalman filtering. Second, with very little extra computation, it can be combined with most existing multiatlas segmentation schemes for better registration/segmentation accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1137/130933423
SIAM JOURNAL ON IMAGING SCIENCES
Keywords
Field
DocType
multiatlas segmentation,Kalman filter,registration,dynamical systems
Computer vision,Scale-space segmentation,Segmentation,Computer science,Kalman filter,Dynamical systems theory,Artificial intelligence,Global Positioning System,Dynamical system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
2
1936-4954
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
26
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi Gao111518.29
Liangjia Zhu2929.07
Joshua E. Cates320917.05
Robert S MacLeod419637.67
Sylvain Bouix587755.88
Allen Tannenbaum63629409.15