X-ray image segmentation using auto adaptive fuzzy index measure
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Image segmentation is a crucial step in a wide range of medical image processing systems. It is useful in visualization of the different objects present in the image. For example separation of the soft, boney tissues and background on the lateral skull X-ray plays an important role in producing cephalometric tracing and hence producing accurate cephalometric evaluation used in orthodontic practice. In spite of the several methods available in the literature, image segmentation still a challenging problem in most of the image processing applications. The challenge comes from the fuzziness of image objects and the overlapping of the different regions. In this paper we propose fast auto adaptive image segmentation algorithm for finding the optimal thresholds for segmenting gray scale images. The proposed method is based on minimizing a fuzzy index which decreases as the similarity between pixels increases. The system uses initial estimates of the parameters of the fuzzy subsets derived from the image histogram then uses fuzzy entropy as cost measure to maximize the similarity between pixels of the same subset. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".