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Poster
Topology-Preserving Deep Image Segmentation
Xiaoling Hu · Fuxin Li · Dimitris Samaras · Chao Chen

Wed Dec 11 10:45 AM -- 12:45 PM (PST) @ East Exhibition Hall B + C #83

Segmentation algorithms are prone to make topological errors on fine-scale struc- tures, e.g., broken connections. We propose a novel method that learns to segment with correct topology. In particular, we design a continuous-valued loss function that enforces a segmentation to have the same topology as the ground truth, i.e.,having the same Betti number. The proposed topology-preserving loss function is differentiable and can be incorporated into end-to-end training of a deep neural network. Our method achieves much better performance on the Betti number error, which directly accounts for the topological correctness. It also performs superior on other topology-relevant metrics, e.g., the Adjusted Rand Index and the Variation of Information, without sacrificing per-pixel accuracy. We illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method on a broad spectrum of natural and biomedical datasets.

Author Information

Xiaoling Hu (Stony Brook University)
Fuxin Li (Oregon State University)
Dimitris Samaras (Stony Brook University)
Chao Chen (Stony Brook University)

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