METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION

摘要

A 3D image may be segmented based on one or more intensity thresholds determined from a subset of the voxels in the 3D image. The subset may contain voxels in a 2D reference slice. A low threshold and a high threshold may be used for segmenting an image, and they may be determined using different thresholding methods, depending on the image type. In one method, two sets of bordering pixels are selected from an image. A statistical measure of intensity of each set of pixels is determined. An intensity threshold value is calculated from the statistical measures for segmenting the image. In another method, the pixels of an image are clustered into clusters of different intensity ranges. An intensity threshold for segmenting the image is calculated as a function of a mean intensity and a standard deviation for pixels in one of the clusters. A further method is a supervised range-constrained thresholding method.