Pereyra, Marcelo Alejandro and Dobigeon, Nicolas and Batatia, Hadj and Tourneret, Jean-Yves Segmentation of skin lesions in 2D and 3D ultrasound images using a spatially coherent generalized Rayleigh mixture model. (2012) IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 31 (8). 1509-1520. ISSN 0278-0062
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2012.2190617
Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of jointly estimating the statistical distribution and segmenting lesions in multiple-tissue high-frequency skin ultrasound images. The distribution of multiple-tissue images is modeled as a spatially coherent finite mixture of heavy-tailed Rayleigh distributions. Spatial coherence inherent to biological tissues is modeled by enforcing local dependence between the mixture components. An original Bayesian algorithm combined with a Markov chain Monte Carlo method is then proposed to jointly estimate the mixture parameters and a label-vector associating each voxel to a tissue. More precisely, a hybrid Metropolis-within-Gibbs sampler is used to draw samples that are asymptotically distributed according to the posterior distribution of the Bayesian model. The Bayesian estimators of the model parameters are then computed from the generated samples. Simulation results are conducted on synthetic data to illustrate the performance of the proposed estimation strategy. The method is then successfully applied to the segmentation of in vivo skin tumors in high-frequency 2-D and 3-D ultrasound images.
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Additional Information: | Thanks to IEEE editor. The definitive version is available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6168272 |
Audience (journal): | International peer-reviewed journal |
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Institution: | French research institutions > Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UPS (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT2J (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Université Toulouse 1 Capitole - UT1 (FRANCE) |
Laboratory name: | Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse - IRIT (Toulouse, France) - Signal et Communication - SC |
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Deposited By: | Nicolas DOBIGEON |
Deposited On: | 06 Sep 2012 13:09 |
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