An external field prior for the hidden Potts model with application to cone-beam computed tomography

DOI10.1016/J.CSDA.2014.12.001zbMATH Open1468.62141arXiv1404.2764OpenAlexW2078460320WikidataQ56994054 ScholiaQ56994054MaRDI QIDQ128047FDOQ128047

Authors: Catriona E. Hargrave, Timothy Deegan, Michael Poulsen, Fiona Harden, Matthew T. Moores, Catriona E. Hargrave, Timothy Deegan, Michael Poulsen, Fiona Harden, K. Mengersen 

Publication date: June 2015

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In images with low contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), the information gain from the observed pixel values can be insufficient to distinguish foreground objects. A Bayesian approach to this problem is to incorporate prior information about the objects into a statistical model. This paper introduces a method for representing spatial prior information as an external field in a hidden Potts model of the image lattice. The prior distribution of the latent pixel labels is a mixture of Gaussian fields, centred on the positions of the objects at a previous point in time. This model is particularly applicable in longitudinal imaging studies, where the manual segmentation of one image can be used as a prior for automatic segmentation of subsequent images. The model is demonstrated by application to cone-beam computed tomography (CT), an imaging modality that exhibits distortions in pixel values due to X-ray scatter. The external field prior results in a substantial improvement in segmentation accuracy, reducing the mean pixel misclassification rate on our test images from 87% to 6%.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2764

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zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian image analysishidden Markov random fieldimage-guided radiation therapyIsing/Potts modellongitudinal imaging

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Bayesian inference (62F15) Random fields; image analysis (62M40) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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• bayess
• RcppArmadillo
• ImageJ

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