Segmentation of Kidneys from Computed Tomography Using 3D Fast GrowCut Algorithm
Gao-Yuan Dai, Zhicheng Li, Jia Gu, Lei Wang, Xing Min Li, Yao Qin Xie · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2013
This paper proposes a fast GrowCut (FGC) algorithm and applies the new algorithm in three-dimensional (3D)kidney segmentation from computed tomography (CT) volume data. Users could mark the object of interest with different labels in CT slices.FGC propagates the labels using monotonically decreasing function and color features to derive an optimal cut for a given data in space. The color features play a great role in comparing with neighborhood cells. The experimental results clearly demonstrate the superiority of FGC in accuracy and speed.