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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Année : 2022

Local Intensity Order Transformation for Robust Curvilinear Object Segmentation

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Segmentation of curvilinear structures is important in many applications, such as retinal blood vessel segmentation for early detection of vessel diseases and pavement crack segmentation for road condition evaluation and maintenance. Currently, deep learning-based methods have achieved impressive performance on these tasks. Yet, most of them mainly focus on finding powerful deep architectures but ignore capturing the inherent curvilinear structure feature (e.g., the curvilinear structure is darker than the context) for a more robust representation. In consequence, the performance usually drops a lot on cross-datasets, which poses great challenges in practice. In this paper, we aim to improve the generalizability by introducing a novel local intensity order transformation (LIOT). Specifically, we transfer a gray-scale image into a contrast- invariant four-channel image based on the intensity order between each pixel and its nearby pixels along with the four (horizontal and vertical) directions. This results in a representation that preserves the inherent characteristic of the curvilinear structure while being robust to contrast changes. Cross-dataset evaluation on three retinal blood vessel segmentation datasets demonstrates that LIOT improves the generalizability of some state-of-the-art methods. Additionally, the cross-dataset evaluation between retinal blood vessel segmentation and pavement crack segmentation shows that LIOT is able to preserve the inherent characteristic of curvilinear structure with large appearance gaps. An implementation of the proposed method is available at \urlhttps://github.com/TY-Shi/LIOT.

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hal-04579617 , version 1 (17-05-2024)

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Tianyi Shi, Nicolas Boutry, Yongchao Xu, Thierry Géraud. Local Intensity Order Transformation for Robust Curvilinear Object Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2022, 31, pp.2557--2569. ⟨10.1109/TIP.2022.3155954⟩. ⟨hal-04579617⟩
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