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Two applications of shape-based morphology: blood vessels segmentation and a generalization of constrained connectivity

Yongchao Xu
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Connected filtering is a popular strategy that relies on tree-based image representations: for example, one can compute an attribute on each node of the tree and keep only the nodes for which the attribute is sufficiently strong. This operation can be seen as a thresholding of the tree, seen as a graph whose nodes are weighted by the attribute. Rather than being satisfied with a mere thresholding, we propose to expand on this idea, and to apply connected filters on this latest graph. Consequently, the filtering is done not in the space of the image, but on the space of shapes built from the image. Such a processing, that we called shape-based morphology, is a generalization of the existing tree-based connected operators. In this paper, two different applications are studied: in the first one, we apply our framework to blood vessels segmentation in retinal images. In the second one, we propose an extension of constrained connectivity. In both cases, quantitative evaluations demonstrate that shape-based filtering, a mere filtering step that we compare to more evolved processings, achieves state-of-the-art results.
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hal-00798625 , version 1 (09-03-2013)

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Yongchao Xu, Thierry Géraud, Laurent Najman. Two applications of shape-based morphology: blood vessels segmentation and a generalization of constrained connectivity. International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology, May 2013, Uppsala, Sweden. pp.386-397. ⟨hal-00798625⟩
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