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We present a new interactive segmentation framework to segment the prostate from MR prostate imagery. We first explicitly address the segmentation problem based on fast globally Finsler Active Contours (FAC) by incorporating both statistical and geometric shape prior knowledge. In doing so, we are able to exploit the more global aspects of segmentation by incorporating user feedback in segmentation process. In addition, once the prostate shape has been segmented, a cost functional is designed to incorporate both the local image statistics as user feedback and the learned shape prior. We provide experimental results, which include several challenging clinical data sets, to highlight the algorithm’s capability of robustly handling supine/prone prostate segmentation task.
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Derraz, F., Taleb-Ahmed, A., Chikh, A., Boydev, C., Peyrodie, L., Forzy, G. (2012). Segmentation of Prostate Using Interactive Finsler Active Contours and Shape Prior. In: Elmoataz, A., Mammass, D., Lezoray, O., Nouboud, F., Aboutajdine, D. (eds) Image and Signal Processing. ICISP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7340. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31254-0_45
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