Multi-scale anisotropic fourth-order diffusion improves ridge and valley localization

DOI10.1007/S10851-017-0729-1MaRDI QIDQ1703953zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shekoufeh Gorgi Zadeh, Stephan Didas, Maximilian W. M. Wintergerst, Thomas Schultz

Publication date 8 March 2018

Published in Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06906

zbMATH Keywords

fourth-order diffusion tensorpartial differential equationsridge and valley enhancementvessel enhancement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with information and communication (35Q94) Computing methodologies for image processing (68U10) Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08)

Abstract: Ridge and valley enhancing filters are widely used in applications such as vessel detection in medical image computing. When images are degraded by noise or include vessels at different scales, such filters are an essential step for meaningful and stable vessel localization. In this work, we propose a novel multi-scale anisotropic fourth-order diffusion equation that allows us to smooth along vessels, while sharpening them in the orthogonal direction. The proposed filter uses a fourth order diffusion tensor whose eigentensors and eigenvalues are determined from the local Hessian matrix, at a scale that is automatically selected for each pixel. We discuss efficient implementation using a Fast Explicit Diffusion scheme and demonstrate results on synthetic images and vessels in fundus images. Compared to previous isotropic and anisotropic fourth-order filters, as well as established second-order vessel enhancing filters, our newly proposed one better restores the centerlines in all cases.

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