Willcocks, Chris G. and Jackson, Philip T.G. and Nelson, Carl J. and Nasrulloh, Amar and Obara, Boguslaw (2019) 'Interactive GPU active contours for segmenting inhomogeneous objects.', Journal of real-time image processing., 16 (6). pp. 2305-2318.
Abstract
We present a segmentation software package primarily targeting medical and biological applications, with a high level of visual feedback and several usability enhancements over existing packages. Specifically, we provide a substantially faster GPU implementation of the local Gaussian distribution fitting energy model, which can segment inhomogeneous objects with poorly defined boundaries as often encountered in biomedical images. We also provide interactive brushes to guide the segmentation process in a semiautomated framework. The speed of our implementation allows us to visualize the active surface in real time with a built-in ray tracer, where users may halt evolution at any time step to correct implausible segmentation by painting new blocking regions or new seeds. Quantitative and qualitative validation is presented, demonstrating the practical efficacy of our interactive elements for a variety of real-world datasets.
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Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-017-0740-1 |
Publisher statement: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Date accepted: | 27 November 2017 |
Date deposited: | 28 November 2017 |
Date of first online publication: | 26 December 2017 |
Date first made open access: | 25 November 2019 |
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