Automatic landmarking for building biological shape models

Author

Hicks, I. ; Marshall, D. ; Martin, R.R. ; Rosin, P.L. ; Bayer, M.M. ; Mann, D.G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Cardiff Univ., UK

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Abstract

We present a new method for automatic landmark extraction from the contours of biological specimens. Our ultimate goal is to enable automatic identification of biological specimens in photographs and drawings held in a database. We propose to use active appearance models for visual indexing of both photographs and drawings. Automatic landmark extraction will assist us in building the models. We describe the results of using our method on drawings and photographs of examples of diatoms, and present an active shape model built using automatically extracted data.

Keywords

edge detection; feature extraction; medical image processing; active appearance models; active shape model; automatic biological specimens identification; automatic landmark extraction; automatic landmarking; biological shape models; biological specimens; contours; database; diatoms; drawings; photographs; visual indexing; Active appearance model; Active shape model; Biological materials; Biological system modeling; Computer science; Data mining; Image databases; Indexing; Microscopy; Visual databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing. 2002. Proceedings. 2002 International Conference on

ISSN

1522-4880

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7622-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.2002.1040072

Filename

1040072