TY - JOUR
T1 - Surface Extraction of Skin Inner Tissue Interface from 3D Volumetric Images of Human Skin via 3D Active Contour Model
AU - Wang, Jiahui
AU - Saito, Hideo
AU - Ozawa, Shinji
AU - Kuwahara, Tomohiro
AU - Yamashita, Toyonobu
AU - Takahashi, Motoji
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Analysis of skin inner tissue in three-dimensions has great value in evaluating cosmetics. In this paper we developed a method of automatically extracting the interface of skin inner tissue from volumetric confocal microscopic images with image segmentation algorithm, as well as reconstructing a 3D visual model of skin inner tissues interface. 3D Active contour model is an image segmentation algorithm and is used extensively in computer vision and image processing applications. We improved 3D active contour model by modifying the energy function of 3D active contour model and proposed an method for setting intial surface of it automatically. Furthermore we use nonlinear programming for finding numerical solution of the energy function. The proposed technique has successfully been applied to extract dermo-epidermal surface and upper surface of epidermis.
AB - Analysis of skin inner tissue in three-dimensions has great value in evaluating cosmetics. In this paper we developed a method of automatically extracting the interface of skin inner tissue from volumetric confocal microscopic images with image segmentation algorithm, as well as reconstructing a 3D visual model of skin inner tissues interface. 3D Active contour model is an image segmentation algorithm and is used extensively in computer vision and image processing applications. We improved 3D active contour model by modifying the energy function of 3D active contour model and proposed an method for setting intial surface of it automatically. Furthermore we use nonlinear programming for finding numerical solution of the energy function. The proposed technique has successfully been applied to extract dermo-epidermal surface and upper surface of epidermis.
KW - 3D reconstruction
KW - active contour model
KW - confocal microscope
KW - dermo-epidermal surface
KW - nonlinear programming
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U2 - 10.1541/ieejeiss.125.756
DO - 10.1541/ieejeiss.125.756
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85024748164
SN - 0385-4221
VL - 125
SP - 756
EP - 764
JO - IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems
JF - IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems
IS - 5
ER -