Segmentation of radiologic images with self-organizing maps: the segmentation problem transformed into a classification task
Erich Pelikan, Frank Vogelsang, Thomas Tolxdorff · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1996
The texture-based segmentation of x-ray images of focal bone lesions using topological maps is introduced. Texture characteristics are described by image-point correlation of feature images to feature vectors. For the segmentation, the topological map is labeled using an improved labeling strategy. Results of the technique are demonstrated on original and synthetic x-ray images and quantified with the aid of quality measures. In addition, a classifier-specific contribution analysis is applied for assessing the feature space.