arXiv:2509.14817cs.CVcs.NA2025-09

针对骨骼断裂导致的分割难题,提出交互式几何活动轮廓算法。

Fracture interactive geodesic active contours for bone segmentation

  • 结合强度与梯度的新型边缘检测函数,避免软组织干扰。
  • 引入距离信息作为自适应步长,稳定轮廓演化并精准停在骨折处。
  • 融合骨科知识,适合临床骨骼分割与骨折区域处理。

针对骨骼分割中经典几何活动轮廓模型因特征提取不精准导致的边缘遮挡、边缘泄漏和骨骼断裂问题,本文提出一种面向骨骼分割的断裂交互式几何活动轮廓算法。该方法受骨科知识启发,构建了结合强度与梯度范数的新型边缘检测函数,有效引导轮廓向骨骼边缘收敛,避免被软组织干扰,减少误分割。同时,将距离信息(可嵌入骨折提示)引入轮廓演化过程作为自适应步长,增强演化稳定性,并帮助轮廓准确停驻于骨骼边缘及骨折位置。在骨盆与踝关节分割实验中,该方法显著改善了上述问题,展现出精确、稳定且一致的性能,表明其在其他骨骼解剖结构中具有广泛应用潜力。本研究还为领域知识与深度神经网络的融合提供了新思路。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

For bone segmentation, the classical geodesic active contour model is usually limited by its indiscriminate feature extraction, and then struggles to handle the phenomena of edge obstruction, edge leakage and bone fracture. Thus, we propose a fracture interactive geodesic active contour algorithm tailored for bone segmentation, which can better capture bone features and perform robustly to the presence of bone fractures and soft tissues. Inspired by orthopedic knowledge, we construct a novel edge-detector function that combines the intensity and gradient norm, which guides the contour towards bone edges without being obstructed by other soft tissues and therefore reduces mis-segmentation. Furthermore, distance information, where fracture prompts can be embedded, is introduced into the contour evolution as an adaptive step size to stabilize the evolution and help the contour stop at bone edges and fractures. This embedding provides a way to interact with bone fractures and improves the accuracy in the fracture regions. Experiments in pelvic and ankle segmentation demonstrate the effectiveness on addressing the aforementioned problems and show an accurate, stable and consistent performance, indicating a broader application in other bone anatomies. Our algorithm also provides insights into combining the domain knowledge and deep neural networks.

骨骼分割图像分割医学影像活动轮廓

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