Inferring Object Boundaries and their Roughness with Uncertainty Quantification

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Main Authors: Afkham, Babak Maboudi, Riis, Nicolai André Brogaard, Dong, Yiqiu, Hansen, Per Christian
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Published: 2023
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author Afkham, Babak Maboudi
Riis, Nicolai André Brogaard
Dong, Yiqiu
Hansen, Per Christian
author_facet Afkham, Babak Maboudi
Riis, Nicolai André Brogaard
Dong, Yiqiu
Hansen, Per Christian
contents This work describes a Bayesian framework for reconstructing the boundaries that represent targeted features in an image, as well as the regularity (i.e., roughness vs. smoothness) of these boundaries.This regularity often carries crucial information in many inverse problem applications, e.g., for identifying malignant tissues in medical imaging. We represent the boundary as a radial function and characterize the regularity of this function by means of its fractional differentiability. We propose a hierarchical Bayesian formulation which, simultaneously, estimates the function and its regularity, and in addition we quantify the uncertainties in the estimates. Numerical results suggest that the proposed method is a reliable approach for estimating and characterizing object boundaries in imaging applications, as illustrated with examples from X-ray CT and image inpainting. We also show that our method is robust under various noise types, noise levels, and incomplete data.
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spellingShingle Inferring Object Boundaries and their Roughness with Uncertainty Quantification
Afkham, Babak Maboudi
Riis, Nicolai André Brogaard
Dong, Yiqiu
Hansen, Per Christian
Numerical Analysis
This work describes a Bayesian framework for reconstructing the boundaries that represent targeted features in an image, as well as the regularity (i.e., roughness vs. smoothness) of these boundaries.This regularity often carries crucial information in many inverse problem applications, e.g., for identifying malignant tissues in medical imaging. We represent the boundary as a radial function and characterize the regularity of this function by means of its fractional differentiability. We propose a hierarchical Bayesian formulation which, simultaneously, estimates the function and its regularity, and in addition we quantify the uncertainties in the estimates. Numerical results suggest that the proposed method is a reliable approach for estimating and characterizing object boundaries in imaging applications, as illustrated with examples from X-ray CT and image inpainting. We also show that our method is robust under various noise types, noise levels, and incomplete data.
title Inferring Object Boundaries and their Roughness with Uncertainty Quantification
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04608