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A Variational Model for Object Segmentation Using Boundary Information and Shape Prior Driven by the Mumford-Shah Functional.
- Source :
- International Journal of Computer Vision; Jun2006, Vol. 68 Issue 2, p145-162, 18p, 8 Black and White Photographs, 1 Illustration, 12 Diagrams
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- In this paper, we propose a new variational model to segment an object belonging to a given shape space using the active contour method, a geometric shape prior and the Mumford-Shah functional. The core of our model is an energy functional composed by three complementary terms. The first one is based on a shape model which constrains the active contour to get a shape of interest. The second term detects object boundaries from image gradients. And the third term drives globally the shape prior and the active contour towards a homogeneous intensity region. The segmentation of the object of interest is given by the minimum of our energy functional. This minimum is computed with the calculus of variations and the gradient descent method that provide a system of evolution equations solved with the well-known level set method. We also prove the existence of this minimum in the space of functions with bounded variation. Applications of the proposed model are presented on synthetic and medical images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- IMAGE processing
DIAGNOSTIC imaging
IMAGING systems
INFORMATION processing
OPTICS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09205691
- Volume :
- 68
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Computer Vision
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 20754411
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-006-6658-x