Unsupervised tumour segmentation in PET based on local and global intensity fitting active surface and alpha matting
This paper proposes an unsupervised tumour segmentation scheme for PET data. The method computes the volume of interests (VOIs) with subpixel precision by considering the limited resolution and partial volume effect. Firstly, it uses local and global intensity active surface modelling to segment VOI...
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Zusammenfassung: | This paper proposes an unsupervised tumour segmentation scheme for PET data. The method computes the volume of interests (VOIs) with subpixel precision by considering the limited resolution and partial volume effect. Firstly, it uses local and global intensity active surface modelling to segment VOIs, then an alpha matting method is used to eliminate false negative classification and refine the segmentation results. We have validated our method on real PET images of head-and-neck cancer patients as well as images of a custom designed PET phantom. Experiments show that our method can generate more accurate segmentation results compared with alternative approaches. |
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ISSN: | 1094-687X 1557-170X 1558-4615 |
DOI: | 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346432 |