Automatic image segmentation for microwave tomography (MWT): From implementation to comparative evaluation
Paper in proceeding, 2019

Inspired by its high performance in image-based medical analysis, this poster paper explores the use of advanced segmentation techniques for industrial Microwave Tomography (MWT). Our context is the visual analysis of moisture levels in porous foams undergoing microwave drying. We propose an automatic segmentation technique—MWT Segmentation based on K-means (MWTS-KM) and demonstrate its efficiency and accuracy for industrial use. MWTS-KM consists of three stages: image augmentation, grey-scale conversion, and K-means implementation. To estimate the performance of this technique, we empirically benchmark its efficiency and accuracy against two well-established alternatives: Otsu and K-means. To elicit performance data, three metrics (Jaccard index, Dice coefficient and false positive) are used. Based on our experiments, our results indicate that MWTS-KM outperforms the well-established Otsu and K-means.

Image segmentation

Microwave tomography

Otsu

K-means

Author

Yuchong Zhang

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction design

Yong Ma

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)

Adel Omrani

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Rahul Yadav

University of Eastern Finland

Morten Fjeld

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction design

Marco Fratarcangeli

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction design

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Vol. 2019 3356437
978-145037626-6 (ISBN)

12th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction, VINCI 2019
Shanghai, China,

Subject Categories

Computer Science

Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)

Medical Image Processing

DOI

10.1145/3356422.3356437

More information

Latest update

3/21/2023