Salt interpretation using seismic data is essential for structural interpretation and oil and gas exploration. Although deep learning has made great progress in automatic salt image segmentation, it is often difficult to obtain satisfactory results in complex situations. Thus, interactive segmentation with human intervention can effectively replace the fully automatic method. However, the current interactive segmentation cannot be directly applied to 3D seismic data and requires a lot of human interaction. Because it is difficult to collect 3D seismic data containing salt, we propose a workflow to simulate salt data and use a large amount of 3D synthetic salt data for training and testing. We use a 3D U-net model with skip connections to improve the accuracy and efficiency of salt interpretation. This model takes 3D seismic data volume with a specific size as an input and generates a salt probability volume of the same size as an output. To obtain more detailed salt results, we utilize a 3D graph-cut to ameliorate the results predicted by the 3D U-net model. The experimental results indicate that our method can achieve more efficient and accurate segmentation of 3D salt bodies than fully automatic methods.
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