Topology reconstruction of tree-like structure in images via structural similarity measure and dominant set clustering

Jianyang Xie, Yitian Zhao, Yonghuai Liu, Pan Su, Yifan Zhao, Jun Cheng, Yalin Zheng, Jiang Liu

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Abstract

The reconstruction and analysis of tree-like topological structures in the biomedical images is crucial for biologists and surgeons to understand biomedical conditions and plan surgical procedures. The underlying tree-structure topology reveals how different curvilinear components are anatomically connected to each other. Existing automated topology reconstruction methods have great difficulty in identifying the connectivity when two or more curvilinear components cross or bifurcate, due to their projection ambiguity, imaging noise and low contrast. In this paper, we propose a novel curvilinear structural similarity measure to guide a dominant-set clustering approach to address this indispensable issue. The novel similarity measure takes into account both intensity and geometric properties in representing the curvilinear structure locally and globally, and group curvilinear objects at crossover points into different connected branches by dominant-set clustering. The proposed method is applicable to different imaging modalities, and quantitative and qualitative results on retinal vessel, plant root, and neuronal network datasets show that our methodology is capable of advancing the current state-of-the-art techniques.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages8497-8505
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781728132938
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event32nd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2019 - Long Beach, United States
Duration: 16 Jun 201920 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Volume2019-June
ISSN (Print)1063-6919

Conference

Conference32nd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLong Beach
Period16/06/1920/06/19

Keywords

  • Biological and Cell Microscopy
  • Categorization
  • Image and Video Synthesis
  • Low-level Vision
  • Medical
  • Recognition: Detection
  • Retrieval
  • Segm

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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