提出融合宽度信息的拓扑分割框架,让图像分割同时保持连通性与结构厚度。
Topology-Guaranteed Image Segmentation: Enforcing Connectivity, Genus, and Width Constraints
- 用改进的持久同调结合偏微分方程平滑,显式建模结构宽度。
- 在分割中同时保证连通性、环数及线宽、长度等几何属性。
- 适合需要精确拓扑与尺寸控制的医学影像或工业检测场景。
现有研究强调拓扑先验在图像分割中的关键作用,尤其在保持连通性与环数等结构特征方面。准确捕捉这些拓扑特性通常需引入与宽度相关的信息,如图像结构的厚度和长度。然而,传统拓扑定义缺乏维度宽度信息,使持久同调等方法难以满足实际分割需求。为此,我们提出一种新数学框架,将宽度信息显式融入拓扑结构表征。该方法结合持久同调与偏微分方程(PDE)的平滑概念,调整上水平集的局部极值,使生成的拓扑结构天然包含宽度属性。我们将这一增强的拓扑描述引入变分图像分割模型,并设计相应损失函数,构建可实现所需拓扑与宽度特性的神经网络。通过在相关拓扑能量上施加变分约束,我们的方法成功保留了连通性与环数等基本拓扑不变量,同时确保分割结果具备关键宽度特征,如线宽与长度。数值实验验证了该方法的有效性,展示了其在保持拓扑保真度的同时,明确嵌入结构宽度特征的能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Existing research highlights the crucial role of topological priors in image segmentation, particularly in preserving essential structures such as connectivity and genus. Accurately capturing these topological features often requires incorporating width-related information, including the thickness and length inherent to the image structures. However, traditional mathematical definitions of topological structures lack this dimensional width information, limiting methods like persistent homology from fully addressing practical segmentation needs. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel mathematical framework that explicitly integrates width information into the characterization of topological structures. This method leverages persistent homology, complemented by smoothing concepts from partial differential equations (PDEs), to modify local extrema of upper-level sets. This approach enables the resulting topological structures to inherently capture width properties. We incorporate this enhanced topological description into variational image segmentation models. Using some proper loss functions, we are also able to design neural networks that can segment images with the required topological and width properties. Through variational constraints on the relevant topological energies, our approach successfully preserves essential topological invariants such as connectivity and genus counts, simultaneously ensuring that segmented structures retain critical width attributes, including line thickness and length. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, showcasing its capability to maintain topological fidelity while explicitly embedding width characteristics into segmented image structures.
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