A locally adapting technique for edge detection using image segmentation

DOI10.1137/17M1155363zbMATH Open1395.62155arXiv1707.09030OpenAlexW2740637966WikidataQ129383769 ScholiaQ129383769MaRDI QIDQ4582840FDOQ4582840

Authors: Marylesa Howard, Margaret C. Hock, B. T. Meehan, Leora E. Dresselhaus-Cooper 

Publication date: 24 August 2018

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Rapid growth in the field of quantitative digital image analysis is paving the way for researchers to make precise measurements about objects in an image. To compute quantities from the image such as the density of compressed materials or the velocity of a shockwave, we must determine object boundaries. Images containing regions that each have a spatial trend in intensity are of particular interest. We present a supervised image segmentation method that incorporates spatial information to locate boundaries between regions with overlapping intensity histograms. The segmentation of a pixel is determined by comparing its intensity to distributions from local, nearby pixel intensities. Because of the statistical nature of the algorithm, we use maximum likelihood estimation theory to quantify uncertainty about each boundary. We demonstrate the success of this algorithm on a radiograph of a multicomponent cylinder and on an optical image of a laser-induced shockwave, and we provide final boundary locations with associated bands of uncertainty.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09030

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zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimationdiscriminant analysisedge detectionimage processingstatistical segmentation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Image analysis in multivariate analysis (62H35) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) General topics in the theory of algorithms (68W01)

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Uses Software

• ElemStatLearn
• PRMLT

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