Morphology on categorical distributions

DOI10.1007/S10851-023-01146-XarXiv2012.07315OpenAlexW3113203193MaRDI QIDQ6186786FDOQ6186786

Authors: Silas Nyboe Ørting, Hans Jacob Teglbjærg Stephensen, Jon Sporring 

Publication date: 10 January 2024

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

Abstract: The categorical distribution is a natural representation of uncertainty in multi-class segmentations. In the two-class case the categorical distribution reduces to the Bernoulli distribution, for which grayscale morphology provides a range of useful operations. In the general case, applying morphological operations on uncertain multi-class segmentations is not straightforward as an image of categorical distributions is not a complete lattice. Although morphology on color images has received wide attention, this is not so for color-coded or categorical images and even less so for images of categorical distributions. In this work, we establish a set of requirements for morphology on categorical distributions by combining classic morphology with a probabilistic view. We then define operators respecting these requirements, introduce protected operations on categorical distributions and illustrate the utility of these operators on two example tasks: modeling annotator bias in brain tumor segmentations and segmenting vesicle instances from the predictions of a multi-class U-Net.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07315

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zbMATH Keywords

mathematical morphologymulti-class segmentationDirichlet distributionscategorical distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computing methodologies for image processing (68U10)

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