Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Glass-cutting medical images via a mechanical image segmentation method based on crack propagation

  • Yaqi Huang,
  • Ge Hu,
  • Changjin Ji,
  • Huahui Xiong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19392-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Automatic segmentation of complex medical images is challenging. Here, the authors present a crack propagation method based on the principles of fracture mechanics: extracting the boundary information of the target area by tracing the crack propagation on a thin plate with grooves corresponding to the area edge.