Regularized shape deformation for image segmentation
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This paper presents a new method for image segmentation by deforming the object shape in a template. The deformation process is controlled using a thin-plate spline kernel based regularization method. The proposed method is especially useful for 2D-based segmentation of 3D medical images by treating segmented slices as templates for their neighboring unsegmented slices. We have applied the proposed method to extract the scalp contours in brain cryosection images with very encouraging results.
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