Documentation/Nightly/Modules/SobolevSegmenter

Introduction and Acknowledgements

This work is part of the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), funded by the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Information on NA-MIC can be obtained from the NA-MIC website. Author: Arie Nakhmani, UAB Contributor1: Allen Tannenbaum, UAB Contact: Arie Nakhmani, <email>nakhmani@gmail.com</email>

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Module Description

This extension implements Sobolev inner product based active contour, using Chan-Vese energy functional. The segmentation is appropriate for 2D images. The obtained parametric contour is generally smooth, but able to catch concavities.

Use Cases

The Sobolev segmenter is general and can be used with any 2D data, as explained in the tutorial.

Tutorials

1. Load the image (input volume):
2. Use built in editor to select an initial mask (or load a binary mask file):
3. Select Segmenation->SobolevSegmenter module
4. Choose the Input Volume and the Initial Mask accordingly. Create a new volume for the Output Volume.
5. Press Apply button.
6. After a few second the following output volume should appear:

Panels and their use

The module has the following panel: The IO section of this panel defines two input images (data and initial mask) and one output image (final mask). The algorithm has three parameters: self-explanatory number of iterations and contour evolution step size. In addition, the parameter lambda chooses the smoothness of the contour (smoothing kernel width).

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