Statistical Shape Model Generation Using K-means Clustering
Jiaqi Wu, Guangxu Li, Huimin Lu, Hyoungseop Kim · 2018
Statistical shape models (SSMs) is a robust and efficient method in medical image segmentation. In this paper, a novel landmark corresponding method based on k-means clustering and demons registration is proposed to train a 3-D statistical shape model with higher quality. The k-means clustering method is performed on the original geometric surface to obtain a simplified surface as standard set of landmarks to find correspondent landmarks on each mapped spherical surface obtained from demon registration in the training set. Twenty cases of left lung and right lung regions in thoracic MDCT images are used in the experiment to build two SSMs. Performance evaluation results show that SSMs generated by the proposed method achieve better generalization ability and specificity while maintaining the same compactness and accuracy of segmentation as those reported by state-of-the-art methods.