Image Segmentation Using Active Contour With Level Set
Image Segmentation Using Active Contour With Level Set
❑
c1 +c 2
∫ I ( x ) . ( 1−H ( φ ) ) dx Min ( I ( x ) )< < Max ( I ( x ) ) , x ∈Ω
c 2 ( φ )= Ω ,(14) 2
❑
∫ ( 1−H ( φ ) ) dx (18)
Ω
∂φ
=spf ( I ( x ) ) . α |∇ φ| , x ∈Ω(20)
∂t
The main procedures of the proposed algorithm are
summarized as follows: (d) (e)
1.Initialize the level set function / as Fig 2.Segmentation results on a natural image, (a)
original image (b) & (c) results by the reference
model after 200 and 500 iterations respectively, (d)
& (e) results from the hybrid model after 100 and Contour Snake and Level Set in Biomedical Applications”,
2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics
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