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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2017
Riverside Research Institute, New York, NY (US);
New York University, New York, NY (US);
Jen-wei Kuo, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Jonathan Mamou, New York, NY (US);
Xuan Zhao, Milpitas, CA (US);
Jeffrey A. Ketterling, New York, NY (US);
Orlando Aristizabal, Jackson Heights, NY (US);
Daniel H. Turnbull, Larchmont, NY (US);
Yao Wang, Livingston, NJ (US);
Riverside Research Institute, New York, NY (US);
New York University, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method to segment images that contain multiple objects in a nested structure including acquiring an image; defining the multiple objects by layers, each layer corresponding to one region, where a region contains an innermost object and all the objects nested within the innermost object; stacking the layers in an order of the nested structure of the multiple objects, the stack of layers having at least a top layer and a bottom layer; extending each layer with padded nodes; connecting the top layer to a sink and the bottom layer to a source, wherein each intermediate layer between the top layer and the bottom layer are connected only to the adjacent layer by undirected links; and measuring a boundary length for each layer.