A region growing algorithm based on anisotropic filtering for image segmentation of the liver

摘要

According to the characteristics of the liver image and the shortcomings of the traditional region growing algorithm, a modified region growing algorithm is proposed based on the adaptive anisotropic filtering. The first, a anisotropic filtering algorithm is proposed based on adaptive anisotropic filtering and we make images noise reduction through it. Second, we studied a method which can select seeds automatically, then the parameters which are in the region growing algorithm will be obtained through Otsu. These innovations and improvements enable segmentation algorithm automatic, fast, accurate. Experiments show that, the algorithm that this article proposed the region growing based on adaptive image segmentation of the liver, the result is better than the traditional region growing algorithm.