Learning based random walks for automatic liver segmentation in CT image

Pan Zhang, Jian Yang*, Danni Ai, Zhijie Xie, Yue Liu

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Abstract

Liver segmentation from Computed Tomography (CT) image is important for the diagnosis and intervention of liver diseases. In this paper, we propose an automatic liver segmentation method based on probability image and random walks. First, pixel-level texture features are extracted and liver probability images are generated corresponding to the test images using a binary classification approach. Second, random walk algorithm with automatic seed points is developed to detect the liver region. The proposed method is validated on standard data with five evaluation criteria. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method for the liver segmentation in CT image. The proposed method can achieve an average volumetric overlap error of 8.76% and an average surface distance of 1.30 mm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCommunications in Computer and Information Science
EditorsShengjin Wang, Huimin Ma, Tieniu Tan, Qiuqi Ruan, Kaichang di
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages251-259
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783662477908
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume525
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Keywords

  • Automatic segmentation
  • Classification
  • Liver
  • Random walks

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