Indexed by:期刊论文

Date of Publication:2014-02-01

Journal:INVERSE PROBLEMS AND IMAGING

Included Journals:SCIE、Scopus

Volume:8

Issue:1

Page Number:293-320

ISSN No.:1930-8337

Key Words:Active contours; local energy function; partial differential equations; segmentation; level sets; geometric constraints

Abstract:Many effective models are available for segmentation of an image to extract all homogenous objects within it. For applications where segmentation of a single object identifiable by geometric constraints within an image is desired, much less work has been done for this purpose. This paper presents an improved selective segmentation model, without 'balloon' force, combining geometrical constraints and local image intensity information around zero level set, aiming to overcome the weakness of getting spurious solutions by Badshah and Chen's model [8]. A key step in our new strategy is an adaptive local band selection algorithm. Numerical experiments show that the new model appears to be able to detect an object possessing highly complex and nonconvex feature, and to produce desirable results in terms of segmentation quality and robustness.