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Image segmentation using voronoi polygons and MCMC, with application to muscle fibre images

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  • Ian Dryden
  • Rahman Farnoosh
  • Charles Taylor

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We investigate a Bayesian method for the segmentation of muscle fibre images. The images are reasonably well approximated by a Dirichlet tessellation, and so we use a deformable template model based on Voronoi polygons to represent the segmented image. We consider various prior distributions for the parameters and suggest an appropriate likelihood. Following the Bayesian paradigm, the mathematical form for the posterior distribution is obtained (up to an integrating constant). We introduce a Metropolis-Hastings algorithm and a reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm (RJMCMC) for simulation from the posterior when the number of polygons is fixed or unknown. The particular moves in the RJMCMC algorithm are birth, death and position/colour changes of the point process which determines the location of the polygons. Segmentation of the true image was carried out using the estimated posterior mode and posterior mean. A simulation study is presented which is helpful for tuning the hyperparameters and to assess the accuracy. The algorithms work well on a real image of a muscle fibre cross-section image, and an additional parameter, which models the boundaries of the muscle fibres, is included in the final model.

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  • Ian Dryden & Rahman Farnoosh & Charles Taylor, 2006. "Image segmentation using voronoi polygons and MCMC, with application to muscle fibre images," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(6), pages 609-622.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:japsta:v:33:y:2006:i:6:p:609-622
    DOI: 10.1080/02664760600679825
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