文章目录
文章链接
Automated Lesion Detection by Regressing Intensity-Based Distance with a Neural Network
PseudoEdgeNet: Nuclei Segmentation only with Point Annotations
Automated Lesion Detection by Regressing Intensity-Based Distance with a Neural Network
Motivation
病灶分割标注通常需要标注人员大量的专业知识和熟练度,耗费大量时间和成本,而且会因标注人员的差异性产生较大偏差。
Manual annotation of lesions can be challenging, time consuming and subject to observer bias.
Method
Distance Map
在一个灰度图像 G ( x ) G(x) G(x)中,具有点标注集合 Φ \Phi Φ,那么对于坐标点 x x x,它的Distance Map为:
D M ( x ) = m i n ( Λ ( γ ) , γ ∈ Ψ ( x , Φ ) ) DM(x) = min(\Lambda(\gamma), \gamma\in\Psi(x,\Phi)) DM(x)=min(Λ(γ),γ∈Ψ(x,Φ))
其中 Ψ ( x , Φ ) \Psi(x,\Phi) Ψ(x,Φ)是标注点集到 x x x所有路径 γ \gamma γ的集合,而 Λ ( γ ) \Lambda(\gamma) Λ(γ)则代表路径 γ \gamma γ的长度:
Λ ( γ ) = ∑ i = 1 n − 1 d ( x i , x i + 1 ) \Lambda(\gamma) = \sum^{n-1}_{i=1} d(x_i, x_{i+1}) Λ(γ)=i=1∑n−1d(xi,xi+1)
本文定义了三种路径距离度量方式,即三种Distance Map的计算方式。
欧几里得距离 Euclidean Distance
d E ( x i , x i + 1 ) = { 1 , x i + 1 ∈ N 4 ( x i )