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- Title
Active Contours Using Additive Local and Global Intensity Fitting Models for Intensity Inhomogeneous Image Segmentation.
- Authors
Soomro, Shafiullah; Akram, Farhan; Kim, Jeong Heon; Soomro, Toufique Ahmed; Choi, Kwang Nam
- Abstract
This paper introduces an improved region based active contour method with a level set formulation. The proposed energy functional integrates both local and global intensity fitting terms in an additive formulation. Local intensity fitting term influences local force to pull the contour and confine it to object boundaries. In turn, the global intensity fitting term drives the movement of contour at a distance from the object boundaries. The global intensity term is based on the global division algorithm, which can better capture intensity information of an image than Chan-Vese (CV) model. Both local and global terms are mutually assimilated to construct an energy function based on a level set formulation to segment images with intensity inhomogeneity. Experimental results show that the proposed method performs better both qualitatively and quantitatively compared to other state-of-the-art-methods.
- Subjects
IMAGE segmentation; ALGORITHMS; ENERGY function; SET theory; COMPARATIVE studies
- Publication
Computational & Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2016, p1
- ISSN
1748-670X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2016/9675249