A Novel Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Active Contour Model and Retinex Model

Author(s):  
Jin Liu ◽  
Jianqiao Wang ◽  
Qi Li ◽  
Miaohua Shi
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yuntao Wei ◽  
Xiaojuan Wang

The traditional CT image segmentation algorithm is easy to ignore image contour initialization, which leads to the problem of long time consuming and low accuracy. A superpixel mesh CT image improved segmentation algorithm using active contour was proposed. CT image superpixel gridding was carried out first; secondly, on the basis of gridding, the region growth criterion was improved by superpixel processing, the region growth graph was established, the image edge salient graph was calculated based on the growth graph, and the target edge was obtained as the initial contour; finally, the Mumford-Shah model in the active contour model was improved; the energy functional was constructed based on the improved model and transformed into the symbol distance function. The results show that the proposed algorithm takes less time to mesh superpixels, the accuracy of image edge calculation is high, the correct classification coefficient is as high as 0.9, and the accuracy of CT image segmentation is always higher than 90%, which has superiority.


2021 ◽  
pp. 114811
Author(s):  
Aditi Joshi ◽  
Mohammed Saquib Khan ◽  
Asim Niaz ◽  
Farhan Akram ◽  
Hyun Chul Song ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Maria Tamoor ◽  
Irfan Younas

Medical image segmentation is a key step to assist diagnosis of several diseases, and accuracy of a segmentation method is important for further treatments of different diseases. Different medical imaging modalities have different challenges such as intensity inhomogeneity, noise, low contrast, and ill-defined boundaries, which make automated segmentation a difficult task. To handle these issues, we propose a new fully automated method for medical image segmentation, which utilizes the advantages of thresholding and an active contour model. In this study, a Harris Hawks optimizer is applied to determine the optimal thresholding value, which is used to obtain the initial contour for segmentation. The obtained contour is further refined by using a spatially varying Gaussian kernel in the active contour model. The proposed method is then validated using a standard skin dataset (ISBI 2016), which consists of variable-sized lesions and different challenging artifacts, and a standard cardiac magnetic resonance dataset (ACDC, MICCAI 2017) with a wide spectrum of normal hearts, congenital heart diseases, and cardiac dysfunction. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively segment the region of interest and produce superior segmentation results for skin (overall Dice Score 0.90) and cardiac dataset (overall Dice Score 0.93), as compared to other state-of-the-art algorithms.


2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 3463-3467
Author(s):  
Li Fen Zhou ◽  
Chang Xu Cai

The Chan-Vese (C-V) active contour model has low computational complexity, initialization and insensitive to noise advantagesand utilizes global region information of images, so it is difficult to handle images with intensity inhomogeneity. The Local binary fitting (LBF) model based on local region information has its certain advantages in mages segmentation of weak boundary or uneven greay.but , the segmentation results are very sensitive to the initial contours, In order to address this problem, this paper proposes a new active contour model with a partial differential equation, which integrates both global and local region information. Experimental results show that it has a distinctive advantage over C-V model for images with intensity inhomogeneity, and it is more efficient than LBF.


IEEE Access ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 54224-54240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Cai ◽  
Huiying Liu ◽  
Yiming Qian ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Xiaojun Duan ◽  
...  

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