Journal of the Operations Research Society of China ›› 2019, Vol. 7 ›› Issue (4): 629-642.doi: 10.1007/s40305-019-00265-w

Special Issue: Continuous Optimization

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Evolution Model Based on Prior Information for Narrow Joint Segmentation

Xin Wang1, Shuai Xu1, Zhen Ye2, Chao-Zheng Zhou2, Jing Qin3   

  1. 1 Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China;
    2 Shanghai Electric Central Research Institute, Shanghai 200070, China;
    3 Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027, USA
  • Received:2019-05-08 Revised:2019-06-05 Online:2019-11-30 Published:2019-11-28
  • Contact: Jing Qin, Xin Wang, Shuai Xu, Zhen Ye, Chao-Zheng Zhou E-mail:jing.qin@uky.edu;xinwang@shu.edu.cn;xushuai.93@163.com;yezhen@shanghai-electric.com;zhouchzh3@shanghai-electric.com
  • Supported by:
    This research was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11771276, 11471208) and the capacity construction project of local universities in Shanghai (No. 18010500600). The research of Jing Qin was supported by the National Science Foundation of USA (No. DMS-1941197).

Abstract: Automated segmentation of hip joint computed tomography images is significantly important in the diagnosis and treatment of hip joint disease. In this paper, we propose an automatic hip joint segmentation method based on a variational model guided by prior information. In particular, we obtain prior features by automatic sample selection, get a discriminative function by training these selected samples and then integrate this prior information into our variational model. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method has high accuracy in segmenting narrow joint regions.

Key words: Image segmentation, Hip joint, CT, Feature prior, Level set, Variational model

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