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Fast 3D Salient Region Detection in Medical Images using GPUs

Rahul Thota, Sharan Vaswani, Amit Kale, Nagavijayalakshmi Vydyanathan
Imaging and Computer Vision Group, Siemens Corporate Research and Technology, Prestige Alecto Building, Electronics City, Bangalore 560100, India
arXiv:1310.6736 [cs.CV], (24 Oct 2013)

@article{2013arXiv1310.6736T,

   author={Thota}, R. and {Vaswani}, S. and {Kale}, A. and {Vydyanathan}, N.},

   title={"{Fast 3D Salient Region Detection in Medical Images using GPUs}"},

   journal={ArXiv e-prints},

   archivePrefix={"arXiv"},

   eprint={1310.6736},

   primaryClass={"cs.CV"},

   keywords={Computer Science – Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},

   year={2013},

   month={oct},

   adsurl={http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013arXiv1310.6736T},

   adsnote={Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}

}

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Automated detection of visually salient regions is an active area of research in computer vision. Salient regions can serve as inputs for object detectors as well as inputs for region based registration algorithms. In this paper we consider the problem of speeding up computationally intensive bottom-up salient region detection in 3D medical volumes.The method uses the Kadir Brady formulation of saliency. We show that in the vicinity of a salient region, entropy is a monotonically increasing function of the degree of overlap of a candidate window with the salient region. This allows us to initialize a sparse seed-point grid as the set of tentative salient region centers and iteratively converge to the local entropy maxima, thereby reducing the computation complexity compared to the Kadir Brady approach of performing this computation at every point in the image. We propose two different approaches for achieving this. The first approach involves evaluating entropy in the four quadrants around the seed point and iteratively moving in the direction that increases entropy. The second approach we propose makes use of mean shift tracking framework to affect entropy maximizing moves. Specifically, we propose the use of uniform pmf as the target distribution to seek high entropy regions. We demonstrate the use of our algorithm on medical volumes for left ventricle detection in PET images and tumor localization in brain MR sequences.
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