A Variational Framework for Joint Segmentation and Registration
Abstract
Traditionally, segmentation and registration have been solved as
two independent problems, even though it is often the case that the
solution to one impacts the solution to the other: In this paper, we
introduce a geometric, variational framework that uses active contours
to simultaneously segment and register features from multiple
images. The key observation is that multiple images may be segmented by evolving a single contour as well as the mappings of
that contour into each image. To the best of our knowledge, this
is the frst attempt at interleaving segmentation and registration in
such a framework.