利用DT-GrowCut的MSTAR SAR图像自动分割技术

结合Delaunay三角剖分理论,提出了一种DT-Growcut全自动SAR雷达图像分割技术.首先将MSTAR数据图像进行Delaunay三角剖分.由于背景噪声是随机相干斑噪声,所以选择两个最大的连通域,引导设置GrowCut种子函数,依据自动细胞机竞争机制,对SAR图像进行分割处理.该方法不需要预先设置类别,能够消除相干斑噪声,能有效地提取SAR图像边沿,大大降低图像的边缘模糊.通过对MSTAR数据库进行仿真实验,并对分割结果进行分析,证明了该方法的有效性和可行性.     

An adaptive semi-supervised Fuzzy GrowCut algorithm to segment masses of regions of interest of mammographic images

According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, becoming one of the most fatal types of cancer. Mammography image analysis is still the most effective imaging technology for breast cancer diagnosis, which is based on texture and shape analysis of mammary lesions. The GrowCut algorithm is a general-purpose segmentation method based on cellular automata, able to perform relatively accurate segmentation through the adequate selection of internal and external seed points. In this work we propose an adaptive semi-supervised version of the GrowCut algorithm, based on the modification of the automaton evolution rule by adding a Gaussian fuzzy membership function in order to model non-defined borders. In our proposal, manual selection of seed points of the suspicious lesion is changed by a semiautomatic stage, where just the internal points are selected by using a differential evolution algorithm. We evaluated our proposal using 57 lesion images obtained from MiniMIAS database. Results were compared with the semi-supervised state-of-the-art approaches BEMD, BMCS, Wavelet Analysis, LBI, Topographic Approach and MCW. Results show that our method achieves better results for circumscribed, spiculated lesions and ill-defined lesions, considering the similarity between segmentation results and ground-truth images.