Construction of Bayesian deformable models via a stochastic approximation algorithm: a convergence study

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DOI10.3150/09-BEJ229zbMATH Open1220.62101arXiv0706.0787MaRDI QIDQ637075FDOQ637075


Authors: Stéphanie Allassonnière, Estelle Kuhn, Alain Trouvé Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 2 September 2011

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The problem of the definition and the estimation of generative models based on deformable templates from raw data is of particular importance for modelling non aligned data affected by various types of geometrical variability. This is especially true in shape modelling in the computer vision community or in probabilistic atlas building for Computational Anatomy (CA). A first coherent statistical framework modelling the geometrical variability as hidden variables has been given by Allassonni`ere, Amit and Trouv'e (JRSS 2006). Setting the problem in a Bayesian context they proved the consistency of the MAP estimator and provided a simple iterative deterministic algorithm with an EM flavour leading to some reasonable approximations of the MAP estimator under low noise conditions. In this paper we present a stochastic algorithm for approximating the MAP estimator in the spirit of the SAEM algorithm. We prove its convergence to a critical point of the observed likelihood with an illustration on images of handwritten digits.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.0787




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