Robust and rate-optimal Gibbs posterior inference on the boundary of a noisy image

DOI10.1214/19-AOS1856MaRDI QIDQ2196231zbMATHFDO

Authors Nicholas Syring, Ryan Martin

Publication date 28 August 2020

Published in The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08400

zbMATH Keywords

adaptationlikelihood-free inferencemodel misspecificationboundary detectionposterior concentration rate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Image analysis in multivariate analysis (62H35)

Abstract: Detection of an image boundary when the pixel intensities are measured with noise is an important problem in image segmentation, with numerous applications in medical imaging and engineering. From a statistical point of view, the challenge is that likelihood-based methods require modeling the pixel intensities inside and outside the image boundary, even though these are typically of no practical interest. Since misspecification of the pixel intensity models can negatively affect inference on the image boundary, it would be desirable to avoid this modeling step altogether. Towards this, we develop a robust Gibbs approach that constructs a posterior distribution for the image boundary directly, without modeling the pixel intensities. We prove that, for a suitable prior on the image boundary, the Gibbs posterior concentrates asymptotically at the minimax optimal rate, adaptive to the boundary smoothness. Monte Carlo computation of the Gibbs posterior is straightforward, and simulation experiments show that the corresponding inference is more accurate than that based on existing Bayesian methodology.

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