Deformable M-Reps for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
Sarang C. Joshi, Chen, James Z., Stephen M. Pizer, Michael R. Jiroutek, P. Thomas Fletcher, A. Graham Gash, Edward L. Chaney, Conglin Lu, Paul A. Yushkevich, Keith E. Muller, Gregg S. Tracton, Andrew Thall, John M. Glotzer, Y. Fridman, Daniel Fritsch · Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · 2020
M-reps (formerly called DSLs) are a multiscale medial means for modeling and rendering 3D solid geometry. They are particularly well suited to model anatomic objects and in particular to capture prior geometric information effectively in deformable models segmentation approaches. The representation is based on figural models, which define objects at coarse scale by a hierarchy of figures – each figure generally a slab representing a solid region and its boundary simultaneously. This paper focuses on the use of single figure models to segment objects of relatively simple structure.