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BézierSeg: Parametric Shape Representation for Fast Object Segmentation in Medical Images
Haichou Chen1,2, Yishu Deng1,2,3, Bin Li1,2
1Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis and Therapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Background:
Delineating the lesion area is an important task in image-based diagnosis. Pixel-wise classification is a popular approach to segmenting the region of interest. However, at fuzzy boundaries, such methods usually result in glitches, discontinuity or disconnection, inconsistent with the fact that lesions are solid and smooth.
Methods:
To overcome these problems and to provide an efficient, accurate, robust and concise solution that simplifies the whole segmentation pipeline in AI-assisted applications, we propose the BézierSeg model which outputs Bézier curves encompassing the region of interest.
Results:
Directly modeling the contour with analytic equations ensures that the segmentation is connected and continuous, and that the boundary is smooth. In addition, it offers sub-pixel accuracy. Without loss of precision, the Bézier contour can be resampled and overlaid with images of any resolution. Moreover, clinicians can conveniently adjust the curve's control points to refine the result.
Conclusions:
Our experiments show that the proposed method runs in real time and achieves accuracy competitive with pixel-wise segmentation models.
