Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Active Mean Fields for Probabilistic Image Segmentation: Connections
  with Chan-Vese and Rudin-Osher-Fatemi Models   Segmentation is a fundamental task for extracting semantically meaningful
regions from an image. The goal of segmentation algorithms is to accurately
assign object labels to each image location. However, image-noise, shortcomings
of algorithms, and image ambiguities cause uncertainty in label assignment.
Estimating the uncertainty in label assignment is important in multiple
application domains, such as segmenting tumors from medical images for
radiation treatment planning. One way to estimate these uncertainties is
through the computation of posteriors of Bayesian models, which is
computationally prohibitive for many practical applications. On the other hand,
most computationally efficient methods fail to estimate label uncertainty. We
therefore propose in this paper the Active Mean Fields (AMF) approach, a
technique based on Bayesian modeling that uses a mean-field approximation to
efficiently compute a segmentation and its corresponding uncertainty. Based on
a variational formulation, the resulting convex model combines any
label-likelihood measure with a prior on the length of the segmentation
boundary. A specific implementation of that model is the Chan-Vese segmentation
model (CV), in which the binary segmentation task is defined by a Gaussian
likelihood and a prior regularizing the length of the segmentation boundary.
Furthermore, the Euler-Lagrange equations derived from the AMF model are
equivalent to those of the popular Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) model for image
denoising. Solutions to the AMF model can thus be implemented by directly
utilizing highly-efficient ROF solvers on log-likelihood ratio fields. We
qualitatively assess the approach on synthetic data as well as on real natural
and medical images. For a quantitative evaluation, we apply our approach to the
icgbench dataset.

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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc