elasticdeform 0.2.0

Elastic deformations for N-D images.

Elastic deformations for N-dimensional images (Python, SciPy, NumPy)

This library implements elastic grid-based deformations for N-dimensional images.

The elastic deformation approach is described in

• Ronneberger, Fischer, and Brox, "U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04597)
• Çiçek et al., "3D U-Net: Learning Dense Volumetric Segmentation from Sparse Annotation" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06650)

The procedure generates a coarse displacement grid with a random displacement for each grid point. This grid is then interpolated to compute a displacement for each pixel in the input image. The input image is then deformed using the displacement vectors and a spline interpolation.

Installation

pip install elasticdeform
or
pip install git+https://github.com/gvtulder/elasticdeform

This library requires Python 3 and NumPy development headers.

Examples

This basic example deforms an image with a random 3 x 3 deformation grid:

import numpy, imageio, elasticdeform
X = numpy.zeros((200, 300))
X[::10, ::10] = 1

# apply deformation with a random 3 x 3 grid
X_deformed = elasticdeform.deform_random_grid(X, sigma=25, points=3)

imageio.imsave('test_X.png', X)
imageio.imsave('test_X_deformed.png', X_deformed)

Multiple inputs

If you have multiple images, e.g., an image and a segmentation image, you can deform both simultaneously by providing a list of inputs. You can specify a different spline order for each input.

# apply deformation to inputs X and Y
[X_deformed, Y_deformed] = elasticdeform.deform_random_grid([X, Y])

# apply deformation to inputs X and Y,
# with a different interpolation for each input
[X_deformed, Y_deformed] = elasticdeform.deform_random_grid([X, Y], order=[3, 0])

Cropping

If you intend to crop a small subpatch from the deformed image, you can provide the crop dimensions to the deform function. It will then compute only the cropped output pixels, while still computing the deformation grid based on the full image dimensions. This saves computation time.

X = numpy.random.rand(200, 300)

# define a crop region
crop = (slice(50, 150), slice(0, 100))

# generate a deformation grid
displacement = numpy.random.randn(2, 3, 3) * 25

# deform full image
X_deformed = elasticdeform.deform_grid(X, displacement)
# compute only the cropped region
X_deformed_crop = elasticdeform.deform_grid(X, displacement, crop=crop)

# the deformation is the same
numpy.testing.assert_equal(X_deformed[crop], X_deformed_crop)

License information

This library was written by Gijs van Tulder (https://vantulder.net/) at the Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (https://www.bigr.nl/).

It is inspired by a similar, Python-based implementation by Florian Calvet (https://github.com/fcalvet/image_tools). This C-based implementation gives the same results but is faster.

This C implementation includes a modified version of the NI_GeometricTransform from SciPy's ndimage library. (https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/28636fbc3f16d562eab7b823546276111f6da98a/scipy/ndimage/src/ni_interpolation.c#L242)

This code is made available under the BSD license. See LICENSE.txt for details.

https://github.com/gvtulder/elasticdeform